Mobile, Alabama – On September 16, 2025, The Mobile Medical Museum will present the premiere screening of Medicine and the Movement: The Story of Dr. Escous B. Goode of Alabama, a documentary about one of Mobile’s earliest and most prominent African-American physicians, who fought to desegregate hospitals, schools, and buses during the civil rights movement.
The feature-length documentary tells the remarkable story of Dr. Goode’s 56-year career as a physician in Mobile, where he had a private practice on Davis Avenue (now Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue) and delivered over 5,000 babies at Blessed Martin de Porres Hospital, the only hospital in Mobile where Black doctors could treat Black patients during segregation.
Through interviews and rarely seen archival materials, Medicine and the Movement also explores Dr. Goode’s marriage, his co-founding of the Rho Alpha chapter of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, and his work alongside John L. LeFlore on many of the key civil rights campaigns in Mobile and across the state of Alabama. In 1962, Dr. Goode became the first African American to run for Mobile County School Board, losing in a run-off while facing death threats…