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'This is not Disneyland': Tourism opportunities abound for Africatown


‘This is not Disneyland’: Tourism opportunities abound for Africatown
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Early last year when a group of Rhodes Scholars planned a trip to Montgomery to learn about history from Michelle Browder, she called on some reenactors to help.
About four reenactors showed up holding Confederate flags and shouting racial slurs at the white tourists. The idea was to “shock” the group with an experience civil rights activists may have felt in the 1960s.
“When people got off the bus, they did not know it was a reenactment,” said Browder. “They were weeping. I had people (later) come up and say, ‘That is what we needed.’” ....

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Clotilda survivors' descendants to Mobile: Include us in sharing Africatown's story with world


Clotilda survivors’ descendants to Mobile: Include us in sharing Africatown’s story with world
Updated Dec 19, 2020;
Africatown represents a “gold mine” for Mobile when it comes to tourism and luring visitors to the city and the historic area north of downtown where a community was developed by the survivors of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to arrive in North America.
But some concerns are arising in the Africatown community over maintaining communication with a variety of community organizations that have interest in the museums and water and land tours that are coming.
“There are a lot of moving parts to this thing, and everyone wants to zero in on the descendants,” said Darron Patterson, president of the Clotilda Descendants Association which involves six families of direct descendants of the vessel with 110 enslaved Africans in 1860. “That’s good and fine, but we’re only one part of the Africatown story. After the descendants settled, the ....

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