"Jim Crow" was the stage name of Thomas Dartmouth Rice of New York, above, who gave minstrel performances in black face. Rice, who lived from 1808 to 1860, made performing as a black man "vogue ...

Popular early-1800s entertainer Thomas D. Rice didn’t invent blackface, but he is credited with popularizing it with the racist, career-defining “Jim Crow” song and dance that made him a ...

Thomas Dartmouth Rice became known as “father of American minstrelsy” not by creating the minstrel show but growing its popularity with “Jump Jim Crow,” a racist song-and-dance number he ...

“Jump, Jim Crow” Thomas Dartmouth Rice, a white man, was born in New York City in 1808. He devoted himself to the theater in his twenties, and in the early 1830s, he began performing the act ...

In Thomas "Daddy" Rice's wildly popular "jumping Jim Crow" dance, performed to acclaim throughout the 1830s, the dancer wheeled, spun, shuffled, glided, and was accompanied by the rhythms of ...

Are we still living in the shadow of Jim Crow? That early 19th-century caricature—in minstrelsy blackface, legs and arms akimbo in ramshackle dance—achieved his greatest notoriety when ...

I was told that the term 'crowbar' was racist. My co-worker said it was derived from 'Jim Crow,' and that the device was named as such because it was used for menial labor. He said the appropriate ...

In Thomas "Daddy" Rice's wildly popular "jumping Jim Crow" dance, performed to acclaim throughout the 1830s, the dancer wheeled, spun, shuffled, glided, and was accompanied by the rhythms of ...