Minstrel Show was one of the first forms of American entertainment, which started in 1843.

They were performed by successors of black song and dance routine actors. The first Minstrel

Show was started by a group of four men from Virginia, who all painted their faces black and

performed a small song and dance skit in a small theater in New York City. Thomas Dartmouth

Rice, a white actor, performed the Jim Crow Minstrel Show. Rice was inspired by an old black

man who sang and danced in Louisville, Kentucky (Clay, 1). The skit ended in the same chorus

as the old black mans song which was "Wheel about and turn about and do jis so, Eb'ry time I

wheel about I jump Jim Crow." Rice's song and dance got him from Louisville to Cincinnati to

Pittsburgh to Philadelphia and then to New York City in 1832. Finally, Rice performed

throughout Europe, going to London and Dublin, where the Irish especially liked Rice's

performance (http://www.sims.berkely.edu/courses/is182/paint167.html).

In the north, slavery was just about non existent, so blacks could be seen free in a lot of

cities in the north. In some cities even, blacks and whites lived tog

seen in most of the south, which was where 80 percent of the black population lived (Massey, 17-

black children were left uneducated due to these laws. The condition of black schools were over

ruling of the case of Plessy versus Ferguson, segregation laws soon made blacks use different

often than before. They were now in direct competition with each other in the city. Large black

water fountains, restaurants, recreational facilities and other things, than the whites

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