This webpage is an UNFINISHED work in progress. Please excuse my dust. I am compiling historical evidence showing that certain people at Disney are replacing history with fantasy, while claiming to do the opposite. One can be both pompous and ignorant at the same time.The links below provide evidence. I will add more proof and explain the significance of each of the links as time allows.
Valarie Stewart
We are honoring the legacies of Hattie McDaniel, James Baskett, Johnny Lee, Glenn Leedy, my father, Nick Stewart, and Brer Rabbit, who were NEVER racist. They were pioneers who are now being discredited, for no honest reason, by contrived accusations of racism.
I am conducting research and locating historical documents, audio recordings, and videos that are evidence of the truth. There is no difference between the depiction of former slaves in "Song of the South," and the glorified depiction of Jim Crow in "The Princess and the Frog."
Someone else has been trying to fool you by REPLACING history with fantasy (purging the historic Splash Mountain ride at Disney World during Black History Month) while claiming to do the opposite, when there is room for both. Guess who?
After Disney's Carmen Smith and Charita Carter visited Avery Island, it was decided that it would be a great place to be the setting for a new Princess and the Frog retheme of Spash Mountain.
Please read all the information here, then let us know what you think after you read it. Use the comment section at the bottom of this page. Do you see what I see? I will explain more later. Please return.
Last Suvivors of US Slave Ships Discovered (BBC News)
https://www.bbc.com/news/education-47791828
The Confederacy's Salt Famine: by Andrew F. Smith
confederacys-salt-famine"The salt mine was closed after a cave-in where 2 men died.
2 killed at Avery Island Cave-in - Widows file lawsuits
AVERY ISLAND SALT MINE VIDEOTHE HISTORY CHANNEL
History (formerly The History Channel from January 1, 1995 to February 15, 2008; stylized as HISTORY) is an American pay television network and flagship channel owned by A&E Networks, a joint venture between Hearst Communications and the Disney General Entertainment Content division of the Walt Disney Company.
PHOTO OF A SLAVE DWELLING ON AVERY ISLAND
PHOTOS OF OTHER BUILDINGS, INCLUDING SLAVE CABINS, ON AVERY ISLAND
Click for photos of buildings and slave cabins on Avery Island
The History Channel(Louisiana lynchings)
https://www.history.com/news/the-grisly-story-of-americas-largest-lynching
HERE IS A DISSERTATION DISCUSSING PATERNALISM AND SLAVERY AT AVERY ISLAND
https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-369henny7/BOUTTE-THESIS.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
WGNO IS AN ABC TELEVISION STATION IN NEW ORLEANS
It is affiliated with ABC.
SOUTH LOUISIANA IS NO STRANGER TO SALT MINE DISASTERS
https://wgno.com/news/louisiana/south-louisiana-no-stranger-to-salt-mine-disasters/
JIM CROW LAWSSOUTHERN JIM CROW LAWS
FERRIS STATE UNIVERSARY
https://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/timeline/jimcrow.htmHISTORY CHANNEL
https://www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/jim-crow-laws
LOUISIANA LAWS
https://www.studythepast.com/weekly/LouisianaCrow.html
Booker T, Washington was born a slave. He later became advisor to several U.S. Presidents. He admired Joel Chandler Harris. A signed autographed copy of his book is selling for $65,000 at
https://www.betweenthecovers.com/pages/books/393345/booker-t-washington/up-from-slavery-an-autobiography. The inscription reads "To Mr. Joel Chandler Harris with kind wishes of Booker T. Washington, April 14, 1901" and underscored with a flourish. Harris clearly read the book and has scored many passages in pencil. Harris was impressed with Washington upon hearing him speak at the Cotton States and International Exposition in 1895. Washington in turn admired Chandler's *Uncle Remus* for its symbolic message of wisdom and kindness about blacks, and lauded him (in a letter and a speech) for a series of progressive articles he wrote on race relations published in the *Saturday Evening Post*. In a 1909 letter sent along with a donation for the creation for a Harris memorial, Washington wrote: "It was my pleasure to know him personally. He was one of the best and most helpful friends my race ever had anywhere in the country."
AVERY ISLAND HAD IT'S OWN "JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS," Edward Avery McIlhenny, who wrote in dialect.
Here is a copy of his book "Befo' De War Spirituals,"containing photos of slaves and former slaves, who speak in dialect and who are described as "happy."http://wiki.wcaleb.rice.edu/mcilhenny1933.pdf
This link to the Library of Congress provides more information and photos of Avery Island and Edward McIlhenny
https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2018/02/edward-avery-mcilhenny-spicy-folklorist/
Google search results for images of the avery Island salt mine will show people the impossibility of Tiana being able to operate a salt mine. These quotes are from https://disneydining.com/more-details-revealed-on-tianas-bayou-adventure-ks1d23/ "The new Splash Mountain backstory finds the restaurateur-turned-princess opening Tiana’s Foods following the success of Tiana’s Palace restaurant in the 2009 “Princess and the Frog” animated film." "According to the backstory, the employee-owned food cooperative is housed inside the aging salt mine within the former Splash Mountain with growers planting crops along the waterway that flows around the famed mountain peak. "
