The National Park Service added Mobile’s Davis Avenue Recreation Center, founded in 1921 as the city’s first public recreation center for African Americans, to the National Register of Historic Places.
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From a Morehouse Busboy to a Caddy Master at Spring Hill: More First Jobs
A legislator who bussed tables on the Atlanta graveyard shift, a minister who ran the caddy shack at Spring Hill College and a judge who picked cotton at $2.50 a hundredweight recalled how they started.
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Mobile Renamed Dixie Street for a Civil Rights Pioneer and Druggist
The Mobile City Council voted in July 2007 to rename Dixie Street for Dr. James H. Finley, an early civil rights leader whose drugstore chain served the city’s Black community for decades.