The former home and office of Dr. James Alexander Franklin served as a safe haven for high-profile Black guests visiting Mobile during the Jim Crow era. An event on May 20 will offer a “preview” of the refurbished house, gallery and event space:
“It’s so important that people realize how history unites, as opposed to divides,” said Karlos Finley. “What’s important is how people interacted and how they created this wonderful tapestry that we call Mobile. And the United States of America.”
An event on Saturday, May 20, will offer a “preview” of the house, which has been refurbished and equipped to serve as both a monument to Dr. Franklin’s accomplishments and legacy and as a contemporary events space. Karlos Finley prefers to call it a gallery rather than a museum, but either way it provides a sense of a man who exemplified Black achievement in the Deep South of the early 20th century.
Photos shows some of the other celebrities who stayed in the home: Dorothy Dandridge, Paul Robeson, Marian Anderson. “This became the respite for famous African Americans to stay during the Jim Crow South,” Karlos Finley said.
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