Daily News (Wilson, N.C.), 20 September 1900.
Minstrel shows were sure-fire crowdpleasers for white audiences well into the twentieth century. Al. G. Field’s Big Minstrels’ national touring company brought forty minstrel stars to town, including Welby & Pearl, America’s Fin de Siecle Exponents of Refined Negro Comedy — who were not decidedly not Negro.
MINSTRELS: A very shameful history of white ” actors” literally painting their faces black and wrongfully mimicking how they thought Black Folk were just to make their white counterparts laugh in clubs and stage shows while they made fortunes doing it!!
This is the story of one of the biggest perpetrators of so called black streotypes ..
Thomas D. Rice – Wikipedia https://share.google/czRWEYuLL5AZJ1cHu
…also note that in this link you will also find out how the term “Jim Crow” allegedly came about