Davis Avenue Branch, Mobile Public Library

564 Davis Ave., Mobile, Alabama. County/parish: Mobile.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 22, 1983. NRIS 83003459.

1 contributing building.

From Wikipedia:

Historic Avenue Cultural Center

The architecturally and historically significant Historic Avenue Cultural Center is an exhibit and event space that serves as an anchor to Mobile, Alabama’s budding Civil Rights and Cultural Heritage District. From the early 1990s to approximately 2015, it served as the National African American Archives and Museum. Formerly known as the Davis Avenue Branch of Mobile Public Library, it was the lone Black library in Mobile County during segregation.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77836937

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