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	A Mini Minstral Show URL: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/enam358/minstrlsy.html ODP description: Includes a typical script, promotional images, and commentary. Page title: Minstrelsy
	Minstrel Shows URL: http://www.musicals101.com/minstrel.htm ODP description: Explores the musical tradition. Includes an article by John Kenrick and a typical minstrel program. Page title: Minstrel shows
	Stephen Foster \| Blackface Minstrelsy URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/foster/sfeature/sf_minstrelsy.html ODP description: From the website for the PBS American Experience documentary "Stephen Foster" a page of information on the Minstrel Show in the 19th century. Page title: American Experience \| Stephen Foster \| Special Features
	Black-Face Minstrelsy URL: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/huckfinn/minstrl.html ODP description: Includes images, background and a script sample.
	Africans in America URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h489.html ODP description: Information on the origins of the minstrel character, Jim Crow. Page title: Africans in America/Part 3/Jim Crow
	Minstrel and Vaudeville Ephemera URL: http://pages.patsweeneyephemera.com/146/InventoryPage/5119/1.html ODP description: For sale over the internet. Page title: Minstrel and Vaudeville Ephemera at Pat Sweeney Ephemera Page description: Minstrel and Vaudeville Ephemera at Pat Sweeney Ephemera For about 100 years - from 1850 to 1950 - the minstrel show was a signifiant part of American entertainment. During these 10 decades, the minstrel show underwent many transformations. It started as a Northern big city curiosity with beginnings in New York and San Francisco. From about 1885 through 1910, the small touring minstrel shows were basic offerings of Americaâs 1200 Opera...
	Minstrelsy Homepage 1830-1852 URL: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/utc/minstrel/mihp.html ODP description: Includes image gallery, songs, texts, notices and reviews, articles, and essays and interpretation of the minstrel show tradition. Page title: Minstrelsy Homepage
	Official Australasian Black & White Minstrel Show Website, The URL: http://www.geocities.com/blackwhiteminstrels/ ODP description: Approved by Dot Mitchell, widow of George Mitchell. Page title: Welcome To The Black & White Minstrels
	Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia URL: http://www.ferris.edu/news/jimcrow/menu.htm ODP description: Racism and racial stereotypes in the Jim Crow Era. Racial discrimination against minorities, blacks and African Americans. Features 4,000-piece collection of racist artifacts. Visitation is offered only as part of a university-approved academic course, workshop, or seminar. Page title: Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University Page description: Racism and racial stereotypes in the Jim Crow Era. Racial discrimination against minorities, blacks and African Americans. Minstrel shows, Al Jolson and Amos and Andy.
	American Minstrel Show Collection URL: http://libweb.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/tc050.html ODP description: Information about the archive held at Princeton University.
	Minstrel Show, The URL: http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/jackson/minstrel/minstrel.html ODP description: Page from a site on the Jacksonian era in America provides a short history of the minstrel genre and an exploration of the archetypes it created. Page title: The Minstrel Show
	November 1901: Minstrel Show in Los Angeles URL: http://www.ulwaf.com/LA-1900s/01.11.html ODP description: Contemporary newspaper account from the Los Angelies Herald.
	Lift Every Voice: Minstrels URL: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/music/minstrels.html ODP description: 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. Page title: UVa Library: Exhibits: Lift Every Voice: Minstrels
	A Look Back at Minstrelsy URL: http://afroamhistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa100800a.htm ODP description: Read about minstrelsy, and find out why it was popular during the 19th century. Page description: During the 19th century, it became a popular pastime to spend an evening at a minstrel theater. While it was entertainment, the main attraction for white audiences was that it was a declaration of white superiority.
	Black and White Minstrel Show, The URL: http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/B/htmlB/blackandwhim/blackandwhim.htm ODP description: Article on the 1950s BBC series filmed in the American tradition. From the Museum of Television online. Page title: The Black and White Minstrel Show