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All hail King Felix III! The son of Martin Horst Cunningham Sr. and Randolph Fargason Cunningham, Martin Jr.’s royal lineage traces back to 1940. Proud of Mobile’s distinction as creator of Mardi Gras, he’s honored to represent the city, the Mobile Carnival Association (MCA), and his family while striking a balance between fun and safety. VISIT THE MOBILE MARDI GRAS MUSEUM 2025 Events Coronation of the Queen of Carnival 6:30 PM Mobile Convention Center. King’s Supper 8:00 PM Mobile Convention Aliene Jenkins (Howard) served as the first Queen of The Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association in 1940. She is the daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Samuel Jenkins of Mobile. After graduating from Dunbar High School, she earned her B.S., A.A. and Educational Specialist degrees from Alabama State University. This king and queen of the Mobile Carnival Association for Mardi Gras 2024 have rekindled their love of their Mobile hometown, the Mother of the Mystics, as Carnival season speeds toward Mardi Gras. MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Taylor LaKell Nicks is this year’s Queen of the Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association. News 5’s Rose Ann Haven interviewed Queen Taylor, who discussed her aspirations On behalf of the executive board and membership. The Mobile-Area Mardi Gras Assoc proudly presents The 2024 Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association Grand Marshal, The Honorable Napoleon Bracy Jr. Her Gracious Majesty Queen Taylor L. Nicks King Elexis I. Tyler D. Rice Junior Monarch Queen Amari Toomer Amari Skyy Junior Monarch King Ashton Yates The Coronation is open to the public and throughout the years thousands have witnessed King Felix III crown his Queen – Empress of Charm and Beauty, Ruler of our Hearts. The Carnival Association partners with the Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association on Mardi Gras issues, as well as their coronation held on the following evening. Mobile area native and graduate of St. Paul’s Episcopal School, Lady Richlyn Sydney Pugh is thrilled to be serving on the court of the Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association as the 2023 Queen. Richlyn is the daughter of Mr. Richard Pugh and Mr. Raymond and Mrs. Frances Johnson, and the first of her family to have been chosen for such a Like this year’s 2020 Mobile Carnival Association king, Sumner Greer Adams Jr., Queen Seline Vaughan Morrissette will wear a family train retrieved from the Mobile Carnival Museum. The Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association Inc. (MAMGA), is a premier organization comprised of prominent businessmen and civic leaders, showcases the best in the Mobile community, and the entire Gulf Coast. Mobile, Alabama is the mother of mystics, the original birthplace of Mardi Gras as we know it! Each year, the city and its surrounding communities come together for weeks of parades, masked balls, MoonPies and merry-making leading up to Fat Tuesday, a season that is collectively known as Mardi Gras. The Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association King Tommy S. Thompson Jr. and Queen Felicie Bertille Hazeur photographed in 1972. The association was founded as a governing body for Mobile's African American Mardi Gras celebrants. Queen Seline’s family history of Mardi Gras is an extensive one, dating back to the 1930s when her great grandfather, Clifton Clarke Inge, Sr., reigned as King of Carnival alongside Queen Sophia Dunlap. Her father, Clifton Inge Morrissette, first served as Herald in the Court of Queen Nancy Turner and King Felix, William Richard Delaney. The 1946 Mardi Gras king and queen pose at the Battle House Hotel in Mobile with their pages and a lady-in-waiting. Courtesy of the Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama “I came to work for the Mobile Carnival Association in 2006,” Gulledge said. “I run the day-to-day activities of the association, which functions as a clearing house for Mardi Gras and debutant season here in Mobile. We also produce the coronation for the King and Queen of Mardi Gras and two parades during the season. A rich family tradition of serving as Mardi Gras royalty can help prepare a king or queen, but MAMGA's Queen Katherine Ashley Smith said it doesn't necessarily brace you for the sheer thrill of it. Mobile Carnival Museum. The Mobile Carnival Museum is a history museum that chronicles over 300 years of Carnival and Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama. The museum is housed in the historic Bernstein-Bush mansion on Government Street in downtown Mobile The CCA, renamed the Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association (MAMGA) in the 1970s, set up a voting system that allowed members to elect a "mayor" to serve as grand marshal of their parades. The African American celebration has its own king, named Elixis. The first king of Mobile's African American Mardi Gras was Mobile politician Alex Herman. The Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association was formed by the city’s Black residents in 1939, when it was called the Colored Carnival Association. Coronation of the Black Mardi Gras king and The juvenile court, led by Queen Catharine Rose Elliott and King Angus Royal Cooper IV, was announced, and the king and queen of the Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association, King Elexis I, Patrick
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