Katharine and R. J. Reynolds: Partners of Fortune in the Making of the New South

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375 advertising, of tobacco products, 5, 13, 204; R. J. Reynolds as innovator of, 102, 110, 192, 203–4; R. J. Reynolds Company, expansion of, 125, 149, 198, 207–9, 322n137 African Americans: as domestic servants, 55, 249–61; and education, 67, 83–85, 191, 246–47; as growing proportion of Winston residents, 180; and Jim Crow system, 6–10, 64, 85–86, 92, 96, 181; as labor, 6–7, 90–91, 180–81; and local politics, 91–92; and organized labor, 89–91; politics of, 90–92; and race relations in Mt. Airy, 53; and racism, 6, 10, 43; in Reconstruction, 33–35; and residential segregation, 177–79; and slavery, 7; and strikes, 174; and textile industry, 170; and Wilmington Race Riot of 1898, 96–98; in Winston, 77, 84, 175–77; and Winston race riot of 1895, 93–95; and Winston-Salem race riot of 1918, 283–84; and women’s clubs, 217–18; as workers on Reynolda Estate, 243–45 American Red Cross, in Winston, 230, 267, 270 American Tobacco Company. See Duke, James Buchanan Anderson, Neal L., 182, 230–31, 272 Atkins, Simon G., 88, 93–94, 222, 274; as conservative black leader, 182, 222, 274; as educational reformer, 83–85; on impact of white supremacy laws, 180– 84; and Slater School and Hospital, 67, 85, 93–94, 124, 182–84, 272–73 Atlanta Exposition, 111 Atlantic City, 122, 148–50, 268, 279 automobile: as status symbol, 220, 259; travel in, 148, 152–53, 215, 235 Ayer, F. W., 239 Ayer, N. W., advertising company, 207 Babcock, Mary Reynolds (daughter of R.J.R. and Katharine), 145, 257, 292–95; on Katharine’s remarriage, 278–79; as mistress of Reynolda Estate, 245–46, 255 Baltimore: and country estates surrounding, 226–27; and cultural amenities of, 52, 122–23, 135, 148–49, 159; and healthcare resources in, 142– 45, 243, 253, 258, 268; as hub of regional economic development, 17, 23, 44, 102, 103; and residential segregation laws in, 177–78; as source of capital, markets, services, education, and expertise, 20, 30, 32–40 passim, 102–3, 153, 235, 279. See also Johnston, J. Edward; Johnston, J. Edward, Jr. Bickett, T. W., 220, 269, 271, 274 Birth of a Nation (Griffith), 147 blacks. See African Americans Blackwell, William T., 4, 5, 11 Blair, William, 39 Blue Ridge Assembly, 264 Blue Ridge Inn (Mt. Airy): as investment and company, 54; as resort, 60–62, 139 boosterism, 3, 77, 79, 168–75 passim, 262; and R. J. Reynolds, 3, 109, 116 bright leaf tobacco: area of cultivation, 1, 5–8, 40–46 passim; and economic development, 77–78; as special flavoring, 205 Index 376 Index Bristol, Virginia: and Bristol-Norfolk Highway, 27; Reynolds family industrial development in, 44, 81, 112; Reynolds family members as residents, 72, 149, 162. See also Sullins College Bryant and Stratton Business School. See Reynolds, Richard Joshua: education of Bull Durham Tobacco, 5 business leaders, as local elite, 3, 322n151. See also boosterism Camel cigarettes, 10, 13, 26, 138; and advertising campaign, 13, 204–11 Candler, Asa, 86 Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad, 49 Carnegie, Andrew, 86, 165 Carr, Julian S., 4 Carter, John, 253–54, 256 Carter, Marjorie, 253, 256 Cash, W. J., Mind of the South, 4 Cell, John, 100 Chandler, Alfred D., 103–4 child labor, as reform movement, 175, 218–20, 265. See also North Carolina Federation of Women’s Clubs; R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Civic Federation, in Winston-Salem, 266–67 consumerism, 59, 134–35; and social class, 161–62, 248 Continental Tobacco Company. See Duke, James Buchanan convict leasing, 236 Cotton States and International Exposition, 111 country-life movement, 215–17, 223 Cox, Nancy (mother of R.J.R.), 18–19. See also Reynolds, Nancy Critz, Peter, 36 Critz, Robert, 32, 112, 122. See also Reynolds, Lucy Burrough Daniels, Josephus C., 96, 101; as confidant of R. J. Reynolds, 113, 192, 200; as friend to Katharine Reynolds, 269, 273, 280; and R. J. Reynolds against J. P. Morgan, 108–9 Danville, Virginia: decline of, 77, 88, 106; as locus of commercial and regional development, 19–23 passim; and R. J. Reynolds Tobacco, 110, 193 Darnell, William, State v. Darnell, 178–80, 186 Davidson College, 276 Debs, Eugene, 265 Democratic Party, 91–96, 191–92; and attack on Republicans and Fusionists, 75, 96–98, 108–9, 183–86; and Dick Reynolds’s leadership in, 294; elite white leadership of, 5, 92, 99, 178, 265–66; and R. J...