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Our Partners

The Clotilda Descendant’s Association is one of many groups working to preserve the historical significance of Africatown. Please visit our partners.

Africatown Heritage Preservation Foundation

The Africatown Community, located in Mobile, Alabama, is best known for its connection to the U.S. slave ship Clotilda.  This community was established by the very same Africans that were enslaved and brought to the U.S. illegally aboard the Clotilda in 1860. 

C.H.E.S.S.

Africatown~C.H.E.S.S. exists to ensure that the Africatown community, in Mobile, Alabama is Clean, Healthy, Educated, Safe, & Sustainable. Through our partnership with the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ), the HBCU-CBO Gulf Coast Equity Consortium, and the Kellogg Foundation, we will implement strategies and the best practices to improve the quality of life in our regions most underserved areas. 

MCTS Alumni

The Mobile County Training School Alumni Association, a non-profit, tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) organization, is dedicated to protecting, preserving, and promoting the history and achievements of the MCTS family, and its descendants, by documenting and recording, for posterity, the accomplishments and experiences of its family by awarding scholarships and publishing the Alumni experience to encourage others. 

MEJAC

The Mobile Environmental Justice Action Coalition was formed 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 and to take direct action when government fails to do so, ensuring community self-determination.

M.O.V.E. Gulf Coast CDC

M.O.V.E. Mobile~Gulf Coast CDC’s MISSION is to transform under-served communities by closing long-standing gaps between them and the general population. M.O.V.E.’s GOALS include laying the foundations for economic growth — financial literacy, minority entrepreneurial and business development, workforce development and international trade — that generate revenuescreate living-wage jobs, and build the community’s tax base