Destination Dixie: Tourism and Southern History

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303 Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations Abolition, southerners’ fear of, 210. See also Slavery Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (Twain), 31–32 Adventures of Mark Twain, The, 24 Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (Twain), 17 Afrocentric racial narrative, 9, 144, 149–50, 158n59, 158nn56–57, 160 Agnew, Spiro, 233–36 Agrarians, 213–14 Agricultural Adjustment Act, 163 Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum, Everglades, 296 Aiken-Rhett House, Charleston, 146, 159n64 Alabama Civil Rights Trail, 218 Alabama Highway 157, 49, 58, 67n23 Alabama Historical Commission, 169 Alabama Tourism Department, 177 Albemarle region, North Carolina, 117–18, 125–26, 134n51 Albright, Horace, 193, 269, 275–76 Allen Plantation, Georgia, 231 Alligator wrestling, 292–94, 293, 296 America, as land of opportunity, 19, 74–75, 88, 105n3, 165, 179n8 American Grand Tour, 186 American Legion, 54 Anderson, Tige, 205–6 Anniston, Alabama: Human Relations INDEX Council of, 217–18; Juneteenth in, 208; Monsanto and environmental racism in, 205–8, 220n2; segregated schools, 216 Anti-F.E.A.R. Study Group, 175–76 Appalachian culture, 267, 275 Appalachian National Park Association, 268–69 Appalachians, displaced, 6 Appomattox, Virginia, 221n19 April 1865 Authority, 176, 181n32 APVA. See Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities Arnold, Benedict, 228 Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA), 189–91 Atlanta, Georgia: Capital of New South, 5–6, 60–64, 70, 75, 223; Gateway to South, 224; Olympic Games in, 60–64; white flight from, 234. See also Stone Mountain Memorial Park, Georgia Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games, 62 Atlantic seaboard, 92 Aunt Polly (fictional character), 17, 36, 45n38 Authenticity, staged or modified, 4 Avery School, Charleston, 146 Battle of Bull Run, 93 Battle of Gettysburg, 227, 235 Battle of New Orleans, 257 304 Index Battle of Selma, 160, 162, 166, 173, 178 Battle of Shiloh, 93, 264n35 Battle of Ten Islands, 215 Battle of Tupelo, 97 Beauregard, P. G. T., 93, 255, 264n35 Becky Thatcher (fictional character), 7, 17, 18, 34, 45n38 Becky Thatcher House, 24–25, 44n24, 47n69 Bienville, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de, 92, 161 Birmingham, Alabama, 54, 60, 61, 165, 216–18 Birth of a Nation, The, 230 Black Belt, Alabama, 160–65, 167–70, 178 Bland, JoAnne, 170, 176, 177, 181n35 Blankenship, Tom, 18, 36, 39, 40n3, 40n4 Bloody Sunday, Selma, 164, 165, 169–71 Bond, Julian, 164, 165 Boone, Daniel, 275 Boone Hall, South Carolina, 151 Borglum, Gutzon, 226, 228, 230 Bridge Crossing Jubilee, Selma, 171–72, 173 British surrender monument, Yorktown, 187–88, 194, 201n9 Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, 165 Brown Fellowship Society, South Carolina , 146, 154n20 Bureau of Indian Affairs, 278 Bus burning, Calhoun County, 216–18 Cades Cove Park, North Carolina, 268–77; Mountain Farm Museum, 267, 277 Caldwell House, North Carolina, 277 Calhoun, John C., 146, 157n43, 210, 214 Calhoun County, Alabama, 10, 219–22, 220n2; African American history resisted and erased, 210–16; civil rights heritage of, 216–18. See also Janney Furnace Memorial Park and Museum, Alabama Carmichael, Stokely, 164 Carter, Jimmy, 50 CCC. See Civilian Conservation Corps Cemeteries, class hierarchy in, 247–55, 255. See also New Orleans, Louisiana Centennial Memorial Park, Anniston, Alabama, 205 Charleston, South Carolina, 9, 152; African American heritage tours, 137–38, 145–53, 153n2; African American population in, 142, 155n24; African American tourists’ response to, 159n70; carriage tours of, 137, 139; Gone With the Wind characters linked to, 81, 140, 154n17, 237; Gullah culture and language in, 145–46, 148; “Information for Guides of Historic Charleston,” 144–45, 148–49; Mitchell, M., and, 140; segregated approach to historical tourism, 137, 138–45; slave trade in, 141–43, 155nn22–23; Society for the Preservation of Old Dwellings, 138–39; sweetgrass basket weavers, 143, 148; tour guide certification requirements, 156n32; voting rights in, 143, 156n30 Charleston Harbor, 137 Chavis, Ben, 169 Cherokee, 92, 267, 275, 276, 278–80 Chevaux-de-frise, 146, 147 Chickasaw, 92 Chopin, Kate, 262 “City of Charleston Tour Guide Training Manual, The” 151–52 Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), 23, 196, 197, 198, 273 Civil Rights Act of 1964, 79 Civil Rights Movement, 9, 122, 179n8; Bloody Sunday, 164, 165, 169–71; Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, 160, 163, 169, 171, 172, 174; Freedom Index 305 Riders, 205–6, 216–18, 222n24; King, M. L., 52, 80, 164–65, 236, 237; Plessy, Laveau, and Morial, 259–60, 265n42; Selma-to-Montgomery March, 160–70, 171, 178 Civil Rights Trail brochure, 218 Civil War...