These included songs from one of the principal ways songs traveled from town to town: itinerant minstrel shows – white professional musicians, dressed in blackface, who danced and performed ...

Jackson's performance, in silhouette, reveals the excitement, novelty, and energy of performances that brought enormous audiences to minstrel shows in Foster's day.

Blackface dates back to the minstrel shows of the mid-19th century where white actors darkened their skin with shoe polish or burnt cork, exaggerated their features and wore tattered clothing to ...

This is how blackface was born. In the 1800s, blackface was heavily prominent in the form of minstrel shows. To be clear, this was not a form of flattery. It was very clearly done to mock black ...

The Morgan Park Hi-Y Club will perform its inaugural blackface minstrel show at Morgan Park School. The show will feature an interlocutor (or leader), several "end men" (who exchange comic retorts ...

Two black brothers in a traveling minstrel show in the early part of the twentieth century have two different goals. One brother is determined to succeed in a field that is dominated by white ...