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Article: AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE TRAIL MARKER DEDICATION FOR FOUR HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT CHAMPIONS

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June 17, 2008
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The city of Mobile issued the following news release:

The African-American Heritage Trail of Mobile will dedicate four historic markers on Sunday, June 22, 2008 at 3 p.m. at 570 Dr. Martin Luther King Avenue (corner of MLK and Tunstall Street) in recognition of four great contributors to Mobile's African American History as follows:

* Christian Benevolent Funeral Home - the first Alabama funeral home owned and operated by an African American woman, Mrs. Pearl Johnson Madison in 1928.

* Finley's Drug Stores - first chain of Drug Stores owned and operated by African-Americans in the State of Alabama.

* Johnson and Allen Mortuary - among the oldest (1894) African American funeral homes in ...

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