Attendees, many of them dressed in white, gathered near Africatown Bridge on the banks of the river, where the ship remains ...

The remains of an iron-hulled paddle-wheeler that was sunk near Mobile Bay during the Civil War are now visible in the surf off Fort Morgan, Ala., thanks to storms that ...

He pointed to an incident in 1930, when Mobile civil rights leader John LeFlore invited Oscar De Priest – the first black U.S ...

We start just minutes from downtown Mobile, Ala., ... Just beyond the shell mound is what's known as the Ecor Rouge — giant red river bluffs and the site of a Civil War battleground.

MOBILE, Ala. — Chief Slacabamorinico, known as the alter ego of Joe Cain — the man credited for reviving Mardi Gras after the Civil War — is a strictly Mobile tradition.For the last 40 years ...

The Civil War began at 4:30 a.m. on the 12th of April, 1861. Gen. ... Growing up in Mobile, Ala., it was a big deal. On the day closest to Confederate Memorial in Alabama, ...

The lynching of Michael Donald in Mobile, Ala., on March 21, 1981 is often reported as one of the last lynchings in the United States, but others may have gone unreported.

MOBILE, Ala. - On Saturday evening, the Mobile Press-Register printed its final newspaper. Since ... it’s been in business in Mobile for almost 250 years-- before the Civil War, for sure.

Abby Fisher had moved from Mobile, Ala., to San Francisco in the 1870s and began to cook for society people there. In 1881, What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking was published.