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Jim Crow Images

Jim Crow Images

Thomas "Daddy" Rice

The original "Jim Crow" figure was a white minstrel actor who exaggerated Black behavior to entertain audiences.

Race and a Child's Game

A dart game featuring a caricature of a Black child (c. 1900).

Convict Laborers in Texas

Convict laborers working on the construction of the Texas State Capitol (c. 1885).

Chain Gang in Virginia

In Newport News, Virginia, a prison chain gang repairs city streets (c. 1901).

"For Colored People"

The Rex Theater, a movie house in Leland, Mississippi (c. 1939).

Clune's Broadway Theater

Inside Clune's Broadway Theater in Los Angeles, a 775-seat movie house and the site of the premiere screening of The Birth of a Nation.

"Oppose 'Birth of a Nation'"

A headline from the Cleveland Advocate, September 25th, 1915.

Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington standing speaking before a Black audience in Lakeland, Florida (c. 1900).

W.E.B. Du Bois

Historian, writer, and civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois.

Heading North

A family of Southern migrants headed north to Chicago (c. 1919).

Jack Johnson

Jack Johnson, the first African-American Heavyweight Champion of the World.