Jim Crow

Image Information: In the late 1820's, a blackface performer, Thomas D. Rice, began performing a dance he called "Jim Crow." The blackface performance tradition can be said to have begun when Thomas Rice began performing in New York in 1832, to great acclaim.
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Modern Languages / Anthropology 3043: Folklore & Mythology. Laura Gibbs, Ph.D. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. You must give the original author credit. You may not use this work for commercial purposes. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one.
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