September 19: Thomas Dartmouth Rice


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September 19

Thomas Dartmouth Rice, the father of minstrelsy (performances by white performers of “blackness” in exaggerated costumes and blackface make-up, supposedly for comedic effect, but relying on racist derision and stereotyping at its core, from the mid-19th century well into the 20th century), died on this date in 1860.

 
 

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