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This award-winning documentary from "Descendant" director Margaret Brown explores the racially divided Mardi Gras traditions in Mobile, Alabama. Watch trailers & learn more. The Order of Myths is a 2008 documentary film directed by Margaret Brown.It focuses on the Mardi Gras celebrations in Mobile, Alabama, the oldest in the United States.It reveals the separate mystic societies established and maintained by Black and White groups, and acknowledges the complex racial history of a city with a slaveholding past. The Order of Myths: Directed by Margaret Brown. In 2007 Mobile, Alabama, Mardi Gras is celebrated and complicated. Following a cast of characters, parades, and parties across an enduring color line, we see that beneath the surface of pageantry lies something else altogether. Filmmaker Margaret Brown’s second feature documentary, 2008’s The Order of Myths, about segregated Mardi Gras ceremonies in Mobile, Ala., is structured around a historical trauma with present-day resonance. Although "Mardi Gras" immediately brings to mind New Orleans for most people, the first Mardi Gras in America was actually held in Mobile, Ala., over 300 years ago. Remarkably, even in 2007, the Stefannie Lucas is the black Mobile Mardi Gras Queen of 2007. She is a teacher at Maryvale Elementary School in a neighborhood that has an 80 percent poverty rate. During February—when most of Mardi Gras takes place and which is also Black History Month—Stefannie teaches the fifth-graders about segregation in the South. 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 subreddit of Mobile, AL. Look here for anything related to the city of Mobile, Al. Azaleas and warships and moonpies, oh my! For inquiries about upcoming events, please refer to our link for the Mobile Rundown website. Also, please look over our community rules. We want this place to be welcoming for everyone! Yes! Mardi Gras: Spring Break (2011) is available on Netflix since . Watch it now or check out the trailer first! Be sure to subscribe and turn on your notifications so you won't miss a beat of the vibrant rhythms, the dazzling parades, and the enchanting allure of Mobile's Mardi Gras. Enjoy the ride, and as View and download the 2025 Mobile Mardi Gras parade schedule, complete with dates, times and routes for all Mobile & Baldwin County parades. Be a part of the historic celebration that has been in Mobile since 1703. Mardi Gras celebrations begin two and a half weeks before Fat Tuesday and the Port City comes to life. Elaborate themed floats manned by masked mystic societies, mounted police and marching bands wind through downtown Mobile and surrounding areas, entertaining nearly a million revelers This award-winning documentary from "Descendant" director Margaret Brown explores the racially divided Mardi Gras traditions in Mobile, Alabama. Watch trailers & learn more. Mardi Gras This is for all things Mardi Gras related along the Gulf Coast. Local Businesses If you live in the Mobile, Alabama region and you’re looking for a certain type of business, this is the category for you. MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Although most Mardi Gras parades in Mobile use one route, there are multiple routes that parade-goers should know before heading out the door. Most of the Mobile View and download the Mobile Mardi Gras Parade Routes so you can find the best spot for your favorite parades. 600 points = A strand of Mardi Gras beads from Toomey's 1,000 points = A Visit Mobile magnet handcrafted by MuffinJaw Designs Studio Please note: Visit Mobile is not responsible for paying admission fees to the Mobile Carnival Museum and History Museum of Mobile. All associated fees and costs must be paid for by the "Mobile Mardi Gras I n 2019, the remains of the last known slave ship, The Clotilda, were discovered by a National Geographic-affiliated team led by archaeologist James Delgado, 159 years after it sunk in Alabama Be a part of the historic celebration that has been in Mobile since 1703. Mardi Gras celebrations begin two and a half weeks before Fat Tuesday and the Port City comes to life. Elaborate themed floats manned by masked mystic societies, mounted police and marching bands wind through downtown Mobile and surrounding areas, entertaining nearly a million revelers City of Mobile Mardi Gras 2025 Parade Schedule: Note: Use News 5’s Mobile Mardi Gras 2025 Parade Routes guide to learn about each parade’s travel path. Friday, February 14. 6:30 p.m. — Conde
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