Mobile Public Library Digital Collections

Mobile Public Library Local History & Genealogy Library

The Local History and Genealogy Library is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to the history of Mobile, and the greater Gulf Coast region.

Browse Items (47 total)

Cudjo Census 1.pdf
Records on Cudjo Lewis and family in the 1880 census

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Black heritage trail takes shape Mar. 30 2007 Mobile County Neighbors 1, 6.pdf
Newspaper article on Mobile's black heritage trail including Africatown markers

Sound Off Clotilda memories Jan. 26 1998 Mobile Register 2A Final.pdf
Editorial containing memories of the Clotilda

Reclaiming our heritage Mar. 25 1999 Mobile Register 1B, 3B.pdf
Newspaper article on relations between Ghana and descendants of Clotilda slaves

At Africatown, more to do Sept. 22 2008 Press-Register 6A Editorial.pdf
Editorial on the story of Africatown

Vital history can be lost, forgotten or ignored Oct. 31 2010 Press-Register 21A, 23A.pdf
Newspaper article on the Clotilda and Africatown

The Bust of Cudjoe Lewis Jan. 24 2002 Mobile Register 1B.pdf
Newspaper photographs of Cudjo's bust and its pedestal
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