Minstrel Shows Resources from Performing Arts Directory

A Look Back at Minstrelsy - Read about minstrelsy and find out why it was popular during the 19th century.

A Mini Minstral Show - Includes a typical script promotional images and commentary.

Africans in America - Information on the origins of the minstrel character Jim Crow.

American Minstrel Show Collection - Information about the archive held at Princeton University.

Bamboozled - The official site for the Spike Lee satire on a modern minstrel show includes essays and extensive resources on the history of the minstrel show and blackface and its impact on American culture and race relations.

Black-Face Minstrelsy - Includes images background and a script sample.

Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University - Racism and racial stereotypes in the Jim Crow Era. Includes extensive information on minstrel shows the stock characters originated in them such as Jim Crow Zip Coon and their impact on American life.

Lift Every Voice: Minstrels - 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.

Minstrel and Vaudeville Ephemera - For sale over the internet.

Minstrel shows - Explores the musical tradition. Includes an article by John Kenrick and a typical minstrel program.

Minstrelsy Homepage 1830-1852 - Includes image gallery songs texts notices and reviews articles and essays and interpretation of the minstrel show tradition.

November 1901: Minstrel Show in Los Angeles - Contemporary newspaper account from the Los Angelies Herald.

Stephen Foster | Blackface Minstrelsy - From the website for the PBS American Experience documentary Stephen Foster a page of information on the Minstrel Show in the 19th century.

The Black and White Minstrel Show - Article on the 1950s BBC series filmed in the American tradition. From the Museum of Television online.

The Minstrel Show - Page from a site on the Jacksonian era in America provides a short history of the minstrel genre and an exploration of the archtypes it created.

The Official Australasian Black & White Minstrel Show Website - Approved by Dot Mitchell widow of George Mitchell.