Jump Jim Crow
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"Jump Jim Crow", often shortened to just "Jim Crow", is a song and dance from 1828 that was done in blackface by white minstrel performer Thomas D. Rice. The song is speculated to have been taken from
Cover to an early edition sheet music by Thomas D. Rice, pictured here performing in black face at the Bowery Theatre, Manhattan, illustration by Edward Williams Clay, c. 1832
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
Jump Jim Crow
…is a song and dance from 1828 that was done in blackface by white minstrel performer Thomas D. Rice. The song is speculated to have been taken from Jim Crow (sometimes called Jim Cuff or Uncle Joe), a physically disabled enslaved African-American, who is variously claimed to have lived in St. Louis, Cincinnati…
Jim Crow rock on Firth of Clyde shore near Hunters Quay, eventually repainted as the Puffin Rock