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‘This is not Disneyland’: Tourism opportunities abound for Africatown Today 7:00 AM 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.’” ....
Alabama artist creates monument to honor and inspire women Alabama artist creates monument to honor and inspire women By Courtney Chandler | May 10, 2021 at 7:09 AM CDT - Updated May 10 at 8:32 AM MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - An Alabama artist is working to create monuments to honor the stories of three black women and the role they played in healthcare. Artist Michelle Browder says since living in Montgomery, she has learned stories about black women that are not often talked about. Browder explained the stories of Arnocka, Lucy, and Betsy. “I learned that James Marion Sims would operate on three women and others without anesthesia and without consent,” Browder said. ....
Anarcha, Lucy and Betsey, or the mothers, as Montgomery artist Michelle Browder calls them, will finally get some visible recognition on May 9, in the place where they unwittingly became a part of history. The mothers are three of at least 12 women that historians say 19th century gynecologist J. Marion Sims operated on between 1845 and 1849; developing and perfecting his surgical techniques on an ailment that resulted from complications of severe childbirth. As enslaved women, they had no freedom to decline these surgeries performed in Sims backyard clinic on South Perry Street. In absence of anesthesia, the women were held down and forcibly restrained as he carried out painful procedures on them. The medical discoveries and techniques Sims developed by experimenting on the bodies of these Black women would earn him the title, the “father of modern gynecology.” ....
Portion of Mothers of Gynecology art exhibit unveiled in Montgomery on Mother’s Day On Mother s Day, artist Michelle Browder offered guests a sneak peek of the Mothers of Gynecology exhibit. A 15-foot art installation to be erected at 17 Mildred St. in tribute to enslaved Black women who J. Marion Sims operated on between 1845 and 1849 in downtown Montgomery. Using the bodies of these women, Sims developed techniques and instruments that would innovate his field of medicine and earn him the title the father of modern gynecology. Figures of Anarcha, Lucy and Betsey, three of the women operated on by Sims whose names have not been lost to time, were created by welding pieces of scrap metal together. Browder unveiled a portion of Betsey at a Sunday view and chew brunch where Tatyana Ali, known for role as Ashley Banks on the Fresh Prince of Belair joined guests, including Mayor Steven Reed, to honor the legacy of the women. ....
Alabama’s Africatown can tell stories of slavery in ways few others can, officials say Updated May 05, 2021; Africatown efforts to tell the story of America’s last slave ship could eventually draw more tourists than Montgomery has been attracting since the Equal Justice Initiative opened a lynching memorial and museum three years ago, the head of the state’s tourism department said Tuesday. Lee Sentell, director of the Alabama Department of Tourism, said he believes travelers who “love history” are “anxious” to visit the Mobile area and meet the descendants of the slave ship Clotilda and “absorb their remarkable stories.” ....