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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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23NB_most-pure-heart-of-mary-catholic-church_Mobile-AL.html
Organized in 1899 as St. Anthony's Mission by Creoles of African descent. By 1901, Josephite priests Revs. Joseph St. Laurent and Louis Pastorelli had established a small school. The
present church was completed in 1908 and dedicated as Most Pure…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23NA_finleys-drug-stores_Mobile-AL.html
John L. Finley Jr. opened Finley's Pharmacy #1 in 1950. John and his brother, James, established Finley's #2 in 1959, which was later sold to Benjamin F. Jackson, Sr.
James H. Finley. Sr. eventually opened six stores, launching the first black c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23N6_national-african-american-archives-and-museum_Mobile-AL.html
George B. Rogers, a prominent architect, designed this smaller replica of the main library in 1931. It is a classically inspired white structure with linear lines. It was the only library for blacks until desegregation in the mid-1960s. Today it i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23N5_christian-benevolent-funeral-home_Mobile-AL.html
Mrs. Pearl Johnson Madison was one of the early African-American women to own a funeral home in the state of Alabama in 1928. The funeral home and burial association served the African-American community when white mortuaries would not. Today, the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23N4_dave-patton_Mobile-AL.html
Patton began his hauling business with two mules and grew to become a prominent real estate entrepreneur and contractor, building many area roads and schools. Patton purchased this site in 1900. According to oral tradition, he commissioned archite…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23MQ_emerson-institute_Mobile-AL.html
On this site stood Emerson Institute, Mobile's first school for the formal education of African-Americans and one of the few 19th-century normal schools for African-Americans in Alabama. Founded 1865 by the Freedmen's Bureau, the school was run by…