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Archaeologists and researchers are working on a map where people can look up their loved ones who are buried at the Old Plateau Cemetry in Africatown. Volunteers along with researchers worked ...
However, the research involved in the review did more clearly map Africatown historic sites that lie outside the existing Africatown Historic District. Among other things, researchers involved in ...
The plan will be unveiled tonight in a community meeting at 5:30 at the Hope Community Center in Africatown. Maps and proposed architectual designs created by students at Mississippi State ...
MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — People in Africatown are trying to get a better idea of their own history, starting with the cemetery. They’re asking others to join them to help map the nearly 150-year ...
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - It was an exciting day for people in the Africatown community on Wednesday. ARC, which is the Africatown Redevelopment Corporation, was gifted a $100,000 check from Regions Bank.
Africatown and McIntosh are two predominantly Black communities located in Alabama's "chemical corridor," a 60-mile stretch of land. Africatown and McIntosh, two predominantly Black communities ...
Explore the back story of the Africatown Heritage House with descendants of town founders. APT's Randy Scott and Clotilda descendant Veda Robbins explore the back story of the Africatown Heritage ...
The 2022 documentary “Descendant” tells the enormously compelling story of the families of captives from the last American slave ship, which anchored in Africatown, Alabama in 1860.