Lecture: Mapping the Black Town: Perspectives on the Evolution of African American Communities

Name: Lecture: Mapping the Black Town: Perspectives on the Evolution of African American Communities
Start: 2025-11-12T12:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-11-12T13:00:00-06:00
Location: 111 S Royal St, Mobile, AL, United States, Alabama 36602

Schedule

Wed Nov 12 2025 at 12:00 pm to 01:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

111 S Royal St, Mobile, AL, United States, Alabama 36602 | Mobile, AL

The History Museum of Mobile’s upcoming Learning Lunch Program is on Wednesday, November 12th at 12 PM and will feature Justin Rudder, Digital Asset Archivist at the Alabama Department of Archives and History. The title of his presentation is Mapping the Black Town: Perspectives on the Evolution of African American Communities.
Justin Rudder is a Digital Asset Archivist at the Alabama Department of Archives and History, and the owner of the Digital Grassroots cultural heritage initiative - developing media for groups including the Shuttlesworth-Bester Centennial Corporation and Mobile African American Genealogical Historical Society. Justin received the 2021 Lillian E. Smith Writer-In-Service Award from Georgia's Piedmont University, a 2022 Joyce H. Cauthen Fellowship from the Alabama Folklife Association, a 2023 Distinguished Alumnus Award during Faulkner University's Marketplace Faith Forum and served as a past board member of the Alabama Historical Association. Justin's publications include "A 'Peculiar Institution': Slavery in Alabama" in Alabama From Territory to Statehood : An Alabama Heritage Bicentennial Collection (2019), "Grassroots Historians and African American Historiography in Alabama" in the Alabama Review (October 2019), and "Mapping the Black Experience in South Alabama" in Tributaries: The Alabama Folklife Journal (2023). Justin's research gathered in mapping Black communities in Mobile County will be included in his manuscript Black Towns of Alabama: Southern Alabama.
The History Museum of Mobile invites the public to attend the free Learning Lunch lecture series. Guests are encouraged to bring their lunch and enjoy a presentation on an historical or cultural topic. For more information on Learning Lunch, contact Brantley James, Curator of Education, at 251-301-0270 or [email protected].