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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23PT_dunbar-central-high-school_Mobile-AL.html
Dunbar School was built on this site in 1924. Dr. W.A. Caldwell was its first principal. In 1947, the Old Medical College on St. Anthony Street was remodeled and became Central High School. Dr. Benjamin Baker was named principal. In 1955, the scho…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23PR_episcopal-church-of-the-good-shepherd-founding-members_Mobile-AL.html
Front Alabama's oldest African-American Episcopal congregation was fostered in Trinity Church by the Reverend J. A. Massey. The Right Reverend Nicholas H. Cobbs, D.D., Alabama's first Episcopal Bishop confirmed the seven founding members, free an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23P3_catholic-cemetery_Mobile-AL.html
Catholic Cemetery, established in 1848 by Michael Portier, Bishop of Mobile, with purchase of five acres on Stone St., now Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. Significant for its circular pattern original section has three concentric rings of graves ori…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23OV_andrew-n-johnson_Mobile-AL.html
Andrew N. Johnson, born 1865 in Marion, Alabama, graduated from Talladega College in 1886, and taught in rural Alabama. On this site in 1894, he established the Mobile Weekly Press, a voice for African-Americans, "A.N.", a powerful member of the R…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23OU_dr-james-a-franklin_Mobile-AL.html
This was the residence of Dr. Franklin, who served the medical needs of Mobile for fifty-three years. He never turned an indigent patient away. Franklin was the only African-American to graduate from the University of Michigan in 1911. He opened h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23OR_caldwell-school_Mobile-AL.html
Opened in 1887 as Broad Street Academy, this was the site of Mobile's first public high school for African Americans. The building was razed in 1947, and a new elementary school was constructed and named in recognition of William Caldwell, the fir…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23OQ_st-martin-de-porres-hospital_Mobile-AL.html
Established in 1947 by the Catholic Archdiocese of Mobile for the black community because segregation prevented black doctors from admitting patients to the City Hospital. Present building erected in 1950 and named for St. Martin de Porres, who wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23O7_christopher-first-johnson-house_Mobile-AL.html
C. First Johnson was an entrepreneur, pastor of St. Louis Street Baptist Church, and lecturer. Johnson ran for political office in the 1890's. He founded the Union Mutual Aid Association, Mobile's first black-owned insurance company. By 1911, his …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23O6_vernon-z-crawford-law-firm_Mobile-AL.html
Vernon Crawford established the first African-American law firm in Mobile. He successfully argued the Birdie Mae Davis case that desegregated Mobile schools. He stood before the Supreme Court and won the landmark case of Bolden vs. the City of Mob…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23NC_johnson-and-allen-mortuary_Mobile-AL.html
The funeral home was purchased in 1906 by Clarence Allen and Edgar Harney. They buried people of all races. Harney died in 1911, and A.N. Johnson became a partner. Johnson and Allen is the oldest African-American funeral home in Alabama that has b…
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