Civil rights tourism erases the after times from the movement’s story

Evidence

I was curious as to whether other plaques and markers told of the moments of doubt, of the riots right after the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, or of Dr. King’s often debilitating depression in the face of the country’s recalcitrance. I suspect the story of a movement on the precipice of failure in 1968 that Baldwin and King talked about in Los Angeles—a story that takes seriously the after times—has little to no place in the narrative of civil rights tourism. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 539

Categorization

• DEFINE: Directly defines what ‘the after times’ means here — the moment of near-failure, the wreckage that follows the triumphant arc, which tourism edit out.
• SEED: Angles for an essay on how memorialization itself launders failure out of history — the tourist present vs. the historical present.
• XREF: connects to: Eco-tourist refuges erase the segregated histories that created them — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 523