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00:01:32 1 Conquistadors: 1519 to 1559
00:03:15 2 Colonial period
00:03:24 2.1 French Louisiana: 1702 to 1763
00:08:05 2.2 British West Florida: 1763 to 1780
00:08:56 2.3 Spanish West Florida: 1780 to 1812
00:09:41 2.4 Republic of West Florida
00:10:54 3 Territorial period
00:11:04 3.1 Mississippi Territory: 1813 to 1817
00:12:05 3.2 Alabama Territory: 1817 to 1819
00:12:45 4 After statehood
00:12:54 4.1 Antebellum:1820 to 1860
00:15:27 4.2 Civil War: 1861 to 1865
00:17:18 4.3 Post war: 1866 to 1899
00:19:22 5 Modern period
00:19:31 5.1 Early 20th century: 1900 to 1949
00:22:58 5.2 Late 20th century: 1950 to 1999
00:28:02 5.3 21st century: 2000 to present
00:29:29 6 See also
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Mobile was founded as the capital of colonial French Louisiana in 1702 and remained a part of New France for over 60 years. During 1720, when France warred with Spain, Mobile was on the battlefront, so the capital moved west to Biloxi. In 1763, Britain took control of the colony following their victory in the Seven Years War. Following the American Revolutionary War, Mobile did not become a part of the United States, as it was part of territory captured by Spain from Great Britain in 1780.
Mobile first became a part of the United States in 1813, when it was captured by American forces and added to the Mississippi Territory, then later re-zoned into the Alabama Territory in August 1817. Finally on December 14, 1819, Mobile became part of the new 22nd state, Alabama, one of the earlier states of the U.S. Forty-one years later, Alabama left the Union and joined the Confederate States of America in 1861. It returned in 1865 after the American Civil War.
Mobile had spent decades as French, then British, then Spanish, then American, spanning 160 years, up to the Civil War.
C-SPAN Cities Tour - Mobile: The Origins of Mardi Gras in Mobile
Learn the origins of Mardi Gras in the United States with a visit to the Mobile Carnival Museum. Mobile was the first capital of French Louisiana, and it was the French Catholic settlers that brought an early version of the Mardi Gras festival to the territory. Hear about the settlers who brought this tradition here and how the people of Mobile celebrate their heritage today.
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Checking out Mobile, Alabama by car and by foot. What a really lovely town.
Studio 10 - History Museum of Mobile New Years Eve
Studio 10 - History Museum of Mobile New Years Eve
Into the Night - 4K - A Time Lapse of Mobile Alabama
Nightlife Timelapse of Mobile, AL. Shot during 2017 in various locations. This is a continuing project that I plan to continuely expand on.
In this current video, there are over 8,400 RAW images all shot on a Nikon D800, with various lenses. I use a custom built motorized and computer controlled 7' long slider.
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History Museum of Mobile 2015 African American Music Festival
The History Museum's Annual African American Music Festival (free event!) helps introduce students to the three genres of music that were developed by African Americans – Spirituals, Blues, and Jazz – and their connections to Mobile history.
LongByFive Mobile, AL
Our walk through of various locations in downtown Mobile, AL.
We toured the lost garden, Cathedral, Police Museum, and Battle House Hotel.
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Battle of Mobile Bay Memorialized Via Stamp
MOBILE, Ala. (WPMI) The United States Postal Service is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War with a souvenir sheet of stamps with the design depicting the Battle of Mobile Bay.
The stamp will be officially unveiled and dedicated next Wednesday at the History Museum of Mobile.
Race Relations in Mobile
MOBILE, Ala. (WPMI) Local 15's Town Hall meeting, 'Race Relations in Mobile,' is set to begin Tuesday from Davidson High School's auditorium. You can watch the Town Hall on UTV44 and on local15tv.com.
The conversation on race relations began earlier this year following the contentious appointment of former Mayor Sam Jones to the MAWSS Board. But the history of race relations in the Port City goes back further than that.
The fight for equal rights in Alabama is well documented. But there's one large Alabama city that seemed to stay out of the harsh media light of the 1960's: Mobile, Alabama.
Mobile still has protests about school desegregation, voting rights. But while things are breaking down in Birmingham, while things are happening in Selma, Mobile was just on a different trajectory, said Scotty Kirkland, History Museum of Mobile.
In 1956, Alabama outlawed the NAACP. John LeFlore, a local black civil rights leader in Mobile, supported its replacement, the Non Partisan Voters League. White politician Joe Langan forged a partnership with LeFlore and the league that reflected his own personal feelings about racial equality. But it also helped Langan acquire something of great value that blacks in Mobile now possessed: The vote.
With the help of black voters, Langan would go on to become Mayor of Mobile.
If you look at the desegregation of the Mobile police force, the Mobile fire dept, the public library and the golf course, most fo these things are timed for elections. Yes, they're things that are promoted as good will by both sides, but they are also political concessions for black votes. And that's something people forget, Kirkland added.
The simple handshake between Langan and LeFlore has come to symbolize a sort of civil stability in Mobile at a time in the '50s and '60's when the rest of the state seemed to be out of control. But make no mistake about it, history will show Mobile has had its share of racial strife.
World War II was the great watershed in Mobile's racial history, because in 1942 we had a young Afican American soldier who was shot and killed on a city bus by a bus driver, who actually was not prosecuted for that act. And then in 1943, the following year we had the race riot at ADDSCO, primarily because some African American workers received equal pay for the same work, said David Ashbrook with the History Museum of Mobile.
But even modern day Mobile couldn't escape deeply rooted racial hate. In 1981, black teenager Michael Donald was hanged near his midtown home. Several Ku Klux Klansmen were tried for the murder, one of those convicted was executed.
Less than a decade later, Mobile would see significant strides in the advancement of African Americans in the city. In 1990 Mayor Mike Dow appointed Harold Johnson as the city's first black police chief. In 2005 Sam Jones was elected as Mobile's first African American mayor.
But it's the struggle from those earlier years that local historians say is often overlooked by both black and white in Mobile,
We don't really study that period in our recent past very thoroughly. We don't teach it in the schools as much, and we don't read as much as we used to. And we don't talk to each others as much, Ashbrook added.
Air raid on the USS Alabama in Mobile
Scott, Gabe and I meet a friend in Mobile, Alabama, to take a tour of the USS Alabama battleship and watch the WWII reenactment.
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The crew simulates WWII drills every two months. The next reenactment will be Feb. 4, 2017.
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5 Top Rated Tourist Attractions in Mobile, Alabama | US Travel Guide
Here, 5 Top-Rated Tourist Attractions in Mobile, United States
Set along the Gulf of Mexico at the head of Mobile Bay, Mobile is a historic city with beautiful old homes, lovely squares, and a vibrant cultural scene. This port city is also home to the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park, one of the main attractions along this stretch of coast. Visitors can spend a day wandering the historic districts, visiting some of the museums, touring Fort Conde or the Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center, or exploring the beaches and small towns along Mobile Bay. Mobile is also known for being the home of the oldest Mardi Gras celebrations in the country, a tradition it still celebrates in a lively fashion each year.
1. USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park
2. Mardi Gras
3. Fort Conde and the Museum of Mobile
4. Mobile Museum of Art
5. Bragg-Mitchell Mansion
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Ghosts of Richards DAR House
The Richards DAR House is a historic house museum in Mobile, Alabama, United States. The Italianate style house was completed in 1860 for Charles and Caroline Richards.It is a contributing property to the De Tonti Square Historic District, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 7, 1972. The six Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) chapters in Mobile jointly operate and maintain the house. It is noted by architectural historians as one of Mobile's best preserved and elaborate examples of mid-19th century domestic architecture. (Thanks WIKIPEDIA!)
C-SPAN Cities Tour - Mobile: Donald v. United Klans of America
Hear about the Donald v. United Klans of America case and the murder of Michael Donald from History Museum of Mobile Curator, Scotty Kirkland. Michael Donald, a young African American man who was murdered by two Ku Klux Klan members in Mobile, AL, in 1981. The murder is sometimes referred to as the last recorded lynching in the United States. The two men who murdered Donald were arrested, tried, and convicted for the murder. One of them was sentenced to death and executed in 1997. The incident is probably best known for bankrupting the United Klans of America after a wrongful death suit against them on behalf of Donald's mother.
Taren It Up: Battle of Mobile Bay
What was the name of the last confederate vessel to surrender in the Battle of Mobile Bay?
Most people focus on the first vessel to be sunk and that's the USS Tecumseh, that's a federal ship that was coming in to Mobile Bay and it's where you get the expression Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead, Jacob Laurence said, curator at the History Museum of Mobile. That last ship though, which is equally as important is the CSS Tennessee. It's also an iron clad. It was kind of the last hold out after all the other ships had either been blown up or sunk, or basically made inoperable, this iron clad continued to try to keep the battle going. But basically over time, one ship versus the naval fleet of the United States that was in the bay at the time, it just couldn't not on. so it is the CSS Tennessee.
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HISTORICAL PLACES OF ALABAMA STATE,U S A IN GOOGLE EARTH
HISTORICAL PLACES OF ALABAMA STATE,U S A IN GOOGLE EARTH
1. CASTLE GAINES,DAUPHIN ISLAND 30°14'53.92N 88° 4'31.85W
2. GUITAR SHAPED MANSION,BIRMINGHAM 33°25'4.73N 86°37'12.77W
3. CATHEDRAL,MOBILE 30°41'24.53N 88° 2'45.45W
4. JESUS,HAZEL GREEN 34°57'0.79N 86°40'53.32W
5. MUSEUM OF ART,BIRMINGHAM 33°31'20.62N 86°48'36.54W
6. SWATHIK WESLEY METHODIST HOME,DECATUR 34°33'14.72N 86°59'38.06W
7. ALABAMA STATE CAPITAL,MONTGOMERY 32°22'39.55N 86°18'1.63W
8. SOUTHERN ADVENTURES,HUNTSVILLE 34°41'49.52N 86°35'39.37W
9. BAPTIST CHURCH,BIRMINGHAM 33°31'0.30N 86°48'53.56W
10. WATERVILLE,GULF SHORES 30°15'32.87N 87°41'10.41W
11. MCWANE SCIENCE CENTER,BIRMINGHAM 33°30'54.16N 86°48'30.95W
12. U.S.SPACE & ROCKET CENTER,HUNTSVILLE 34°42'39.49N 86°39'11.26W
13. SPLASH ADVENTURE,BESSEMER 33°22'47.48N 86°59'56.35W
14. FORT CONDE,MOBILE 30°41'19.33N 88° 2'24.35W
15. LDS CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST,BIRMINGHAM 33°40'27.88N 86°49'16.65W
16. NATURAL BRIDGE PARK,HALEYVILLE 34° 5'34.19N 87°36'6.99W
17. WORLD'S LARGEST OFFICE CHAIR,ANNISTON 33°39'9.26N 85°49'46.33W
18. VULCAN STATUE,BIRMINGHAM 33°29'30.10N 86°47'44.16W
19. USS ALABAMA BATTLESHIP PARK,MOBILE 30°40'54.11N 88° 0'52.33W
20. CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF THE ADVENT,BIRMINGHAM 33°31'9.17N 86°48'30.53W
21. BOLL WEEVIL MONUMENT,ENTERPRISE 31°18'51.97N 85°51'14.32W
22. CATHEDRAL OF ST.PAUL,BIRMINGHAM 33°31'3.80N 86°48'16.69W
23. BOTANICAL GARDEN,HUNTSVILLE 34°42'33.44N 86°38'9.05W
24. SOUTHERN MUSEUM OF FLIGHT,BIRMINGHAM 33°33'51.23N 86°44'24.97W
25. CASTLE MORGAN,GULF SHORES 30°13'41.05N 88° 1'21.96W
Southern Accents: Touring Mobile, Alabama (LQ)
Explore the Gulf Coast as Karen discovers Mobile, Alabama. She'll visit the keepers of America's first Mardi Gras celebration. Of course, seafood is on the menu at a couple local institutions. And more history is in store on a walking tour of the city and on the WWII battleship, the USS Alabama. And she'll rest at a lovely hotel with a dark secret hidden beneath the floors. With host Karen Elliott.
Bellingrath Gardens and Home 1080p
Bellingrath Gardens and Home is the 65-acre public garden and historic home of Walter and Bessie Bellingrath, located on the Fowl River in Theodore, near Mobile, Alabama. Walter Bellingrath was one of the first Coca-Cola bottlers in the Southeast, and with his wealth built the estate garden and home. He and his wife, Bessie, lived in the home which has since been converted into a museum. Since the Gardens opened to the public in 1932, they continue to welcome visitors to enjoy year-round floral pageantry. The site was listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on September 14, 1977 and on the National Register of Historic Places on October 19, 1982.
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