Mobile Alabama's People of Color

Mobile Alabama's People of Color
Author: Shawn A. Bivens
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: African American leadership
ISBN: 9781412002172

This book provides a chronology of historical moments in the lives of African Americans in the Mobile, Alabama community over three hundred years, from 1702 to 2002.

Mobile

Mobile
Author: Michael Thomason
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN:

The history of Mobile, Alabama's first city.

Mobile Alabama Legends

Mobile Alabama Legends
Author: Josephine F Peterson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2020-02-08
Genre:
ISBN:

Short stories and sketches by Josephine F. Petterson of Mobile Alabama. Ms. Petterson interviewed over 100 Mobile area citizens for the Federal Writers' Project.The written interviews provide not only the interviewees names and addresses but also their thoughts on recent history and present (1939) topics.The interviewees are quoted verbatim and may contain content offensive to today's society.

South Mobile

South Mobile
Author: Susan Rouillier
Publisher:
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2018-06-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9781720428688

As rich and fascinating as the history of the Old Port City, this book reveals the story of South Mobile, Alabama, from 1699-2018, focusing on the area from Brookley Air Force Base to Dog River. The 277 page book includes chapters on Native Americans, King Louis IV's Warehouse on Dog River, the earliest settlers, the Magnolia Racetrack and Buchanan its Kentucky Derby winner, Camp Goode, a Civil War Training Camp on Dog River with letters from officers in charge, Mobile's First Cotton Mill on Dog River, Brookley Air Force Base, Elvis at the Radio Ranch, Night Clubs in the 1940's, three Dog River Bridges, Iconic Businesses, Buccaneer and Mobile Yacht Clubs, Oldest houses, Oldest Churches, First Schools, Fishing, Oystering, and first hand stories from citizens. The book contains many never-before published images and detailed maps.

Hidden History of Mobile

Hidden History of Mobile
Author: Joe Cuhaj
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2020
Genre: History
ISBN: 1467143545

It was an unlikely place for a city, scourged by disease-ridden mosquitos and pummeled by hurricanes. But for more than three hundred years, Mobile has thrived on the unlikely and endured the unimaginable. Mobilians love their gumbo but are likely unaware that it was first served up here by women sent from France to foster population growth. Times were once so dire for free blacks that a shocking number petitioned the courts to become slaves. The city witnessed the first operational submarine, the first Mardi Gras celebration and the last major battle of the Civil War. Author Joe Cuhaj navigates the backwaters of Mobile's fascinating history.