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On the Web
- Minstrel Show, The - Page from a site on the Jacksonian era in America provides a short history of the minstrel genre and an exploration of the archtypes it created.
- Minstrel Shows - Explores the musical tradition. Includes an article by John Kenrick and a typical minstrel program.
- Lift Every Voice: Minstrels - Companion to the "Music in American Life" exhibit at the University of Virginia Library. Commentary accompanies pictures of original minstrel show programs, illustrations and paraphanalia.
- Minstrelsy Homepage 1830-1852 - Includes image gallery, songs, texts, notices and reviews, articles, and essays and interpretation of the minstrel show tradition.
- Black and White Minstrel Show, The - Article on the 1950s BBC series filmed in the American tradition. From the Museum of Television online.
- Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University - Racism and racial stereotypes in the Jim Crow Era. Includes extensive information on minstrel shows, the stock characters originated in them such as Jim Crow, Zip Coon and their impact on American life.
- American Minstrel Show Collection - Information about the archive held at Princeton University.
- Stephen Foster | Blackface Minstrelsy - From the website for the PBS American Experience documentary "Stephen Foster" a page of information on the Minstrel Show in the 19th century.
- November 1901: Minstrel Show in Los Angeles - Contemporary newspaper account from the Los Angelies Herald.
- Minstrel Show - The official site for Max Sparber's harrowing two-man show about a 1919 lynching in Omaha, Nebraska.
Wikipedia Articles
- Minstrel show - The minstrel show, or minstrelsy, was an American entertainment consisting of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music, performed by white people in blackface or, especially after the American Civil War, African Americans in blackface. Minstrel shows portrayed and lampooned blacks in stereotypical and often disparaging ways: as ignorant, lazy, buffoonish, superstitious, joyous, and musical.
- Eddie Leonard - Eddie Leonard (1871-1941), born Lemuel Golden Toney, was a vaudevillian and a man considered the greatest American minstrel of his day, at a time when minstrel shows were still acceptable as entertainment. He performed in vaudeville for 45 years before that medium faded in the 1920s, and was known for such songs as "Sweet As Apple Cider", "Roly Boly Eyes" and "Ida".
- Emmet Miller - Emmett Miller was a minstrel singer born in Macon, Georgia in 1900. In addition to touring widely with minstrel shows, he recorded several records with Okeh in the 1920s.
- Hy Heath - Songwriter, composer and author Hy Heath (1890 - 1965) was educated in public schools and then became a comedian in musical comedy, vaudeville, minstrel and burlesque shows. His chief musical collaborators included Johnny Lange and Fred Rose.
- Master Juba - Master Juba was the stage name of William Henry Lane (1825–1852), who danced in minstrel shows in the 1840s. He was one of the first black performers in the United States.