Clyde Odom Mobile, Alabama, before the war ... during the war years would continue to reverberate during the post-war civil rights era, the rise of the “New South” and the emergence of ...

Officials plan to celebrate the opening Wednesday morning of a new downtown Mobile park celebrating the fight for civil rights in the city.

In the years after the Civil War, white politicians in Southern states created multiple holidays to honor Confederate leaders and dead Confederate soldiers. Alabama lawmakers in 1901 named a ...