Minstrel Shows

• A Mini Minstrel Show  - Presents a minstrel show typical script and images, as well as commentaries.
• Africans in America  - Presents a historical account of the origin of the minstrel character Jim Crow.
• American Experience: Blackface Minstrelsy  - Information page about the history and legacy of the blackface minstrel show from the PBS website.
• American Minstrel Show Collection  - Consists of advertisement material promoting minstrel performances from the 1850s through the 1920s.
• Blackface Minstrelsy  - Show where white entertainers put on a blackface and imitated or caricatured slaves in the South and ex-slaves in the North.
• Blackface Minstrelsy 1830-1852  - Contains gallery of images, minstrel songs, playbills, texts, cotemporary notices and reviews, articles and essays, newspaper advertisements, and literary minstrelsy.
• Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia  - Located on the campus of Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan. Displays racism and racial stereotypes in the Jim Crow Era.
• Life Every Voice  - Exhibit at the University Virginia Library and is about the African-American struggle for equal rights.
• MBC: The Black and White Minstrel Show  - Review about the show from the Museum of Television online.
• The Minstrel Show  - Emerged from pre-industrial European traditions of masking and carnival.
• Minstrel Shows  - Account of the history of minstrel musical shows by John Kenrick with show images.