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| The "Jim Crow" figure was a fixture of the minstrel shows that toured the South; a white man made up as a black man sang and mimicked stereotypical behavior in the name of comedy. |
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| Sheet music cover illustration with caricatures of ragged African-American musicians and dancers. pub. C1847 |
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| 1866: One of a number of highly racist posters issued as part of a smear campaign against PA Repubican gubernatorial nominee John White Geary by supporters of Democratic candidate Hiester Clymer. Indicative of Clymer's white-supremacy platform, the posters attack postwar Republican efforts to pass a constitutional amendment enfranchising blacks. Artist: Reynolds NY |
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| Another in a series of racist posters attacking Radical Republican exponents of black suffrage, issued during the 1866 PA gubernatorial race. |
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| A well-dressed African-American man, perhaps "parroting" the dress of the white middle class, converses with an actual--and chained--parrot in this 19th-century lithograph. |
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| 1898 Russell Morgan Print for Oliver Scott's Refined Negro Minstrels. Printed by the U.S. Printing Company. |
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