Africatown Heritage House is open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10am – 5pm.

Phone: 251-206-5268 | 2465 Winbush St. Mobile, AL 36610

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2026 HERITAGE LECTURE SERIES

Africatown Heritage House is hosting its September 2026 Heritage Lecture Series event, a collection of speeches designed to touch on topics related to the Black experience, on Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 5:30pm.

For the September Heritage Lecture Series, Ramsey Sprague will present “The Shapes of Africatown: The Defined and Undefined Boundaries that Help Tell the Africatown Story.“

Ramsey Sprague was born in Houma, Louisiana, raised in Arlington, Texas, and has lived in Mobile for the last 13 years. Ramsey is the President of the Mobile Environmental Justice Action Coalition, aka MEJAC, which was founded by residents of historic Africatown in 2013 with the mission to engage and organize with Mobile’s most threatened communities in order to defend the inalienable rights to clean air, water, soil, health, and safety; to promote environmental justice; and to take direct action when government fails to do so, ensuring community self-determination.

Ramsey now also serves in leadership with the Mobile and Alabama NAACP branches, the Africatown Heritage Preservation Foundation, the Another Gulf Is Possible collaborative, and the Moving Forward Network, a national network of environmental justice community-based organizations located in port cities.

The History Museum of Mobile and Africatown Heritage House invite the public to attend this FREE Heritage Lecture Series event.

Capacity is limited and guests are required to RSVP to attend by calling (251) 206-5268.

For more information on the Heritage Lecture Series, contact Jessica Fairley, Africatown Heritage House Manager, by email at j.fairley@historymuseumofmobile.com.

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