Jim Crow (character)
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The Jim Crow persona is a theater character developed by American entertainer Thomas D. Rice and popularized through his minstrel shows. The character is a stereotypical depiction of African-Americans
c. 1832 illustration of Thomas D. Rice portraying the persona
Jim Crow rock on Firth of Clyde shore near Hunters Quay, eventually repainted as the Puffin Rock
Blackface
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Blackface is the practice of performers of any race or ethnicity, usually white people, using burned cork, shoe polish, or theatrical makeup to portray a caricature of black people, e.g. African Ameri
Jim Crow (character)
…popularized a traditional slave song called "Jump Jim Crow" (1828). The character dresses in rags and wears a battered hat and torn pants. Rice applied blackface makeup made of burnt cork to his face and hands and impersonated a witty African-American field-hand who sang, "Come listen all you galls and boys, I'm…
This reproduction of a 1900 William H. West minstrel show poster, originally published by the Strobridge Lithographing Company, shows the transformation from a person of European descent to a caricature of a dark-skinned person of African descent.
FLIT advertisement by Dr. Seuss depicting blackface-styled caricatures of Black people
The white American actor John McCullough as Othello, 1878
Carrie Swain in blackface as Topsy in Uncle Tom's Cabin.