OUDC 30- Africatown/Mobile ,Alabama - Day 2

OUDC Class 30 attended services at the Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in Africatown and then took an extensive tour of the community with a local historian, including a visit to the cemetery where Cudjo Lewis, born Oluale Kossola. the last survivor of the Clotilde passage, is buried.

OUDC 30- Africatown/Mobile ,Alabama - Day 1

OUDC Class 30 travelled to Africatown, in north Mobile, Alabama. They met with other local youth activist groups, local leaders, and elders. They learned the story of the Clotidle, the last slave ship known to come to the US, and heard about Africatown, the community founded by the enslaved Africans and their descendants, near where the ship was run aground and burned. It was a lesson in history and ongoing activism for social justice.