Reading List
SELECT BOOKS & JOURNALS
AFRICATOWN: If We Can Save the Ship, We Can Save the Town
The report asks: Can a community use history, culture, and tourism to create equitable, sustainable development for the benefit of residents? How has the built environment contributed to Africatown’s struggles with endemic poverty, isolation, encroaching industry, and lack of services? What opportunities exist through design and planning to give new agency to this unique and resilient community?
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VIDEOS
Select historical, news and documentary videos about Africatown.
RADIO & PODCASTS
| Jan 4, 2019 | WNYC Host and Managing Editor Brooke Gladstone spoke with Deborah G. Plant, editor of Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston about Cudjo Lewis, a founder of Africatown; Joe Womack, environmental activist and Africatown resident; Vickii Howell, president and CEO of the MOVE Gulf Coast Community Development Corporation; Charles Torrey, research historian for the History Museum of Mobile; and others about the past, present, and future of Africatown, Alabama.
**This episode originally aired in May of 2018.**
S3 E1 | Dec 3, 2019 | 37 mins | by Sam Dingman — Africatown is a small community in Mobile, Alabama, where many families share a painful history. For decades, their story has been an open secret – until now.
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