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The Tower 1920 "Echoes From the Minstrel"
Dublin Core
Title
The Tower 1920 "Echoes From the Minstrel"
Subject
Description
The "Echoes From The Minstrel" section toward the end of the Westhampton College yearbook is a collection of jokes and quotes written in "Negro dialect." "The Minstrel" is a reference to the minstrel shows that the Glee Club began putting on in May of 1915. These performances included blackface performance.
Source
Virginia Baptist Historical Society, The Tower 1920: 125.
Publisher
The Tower, University of Richmond
Date
1920
Relation
Format
Language
English
Type
Identifier
Tower125-1920.jpg
Coverage
Richmond (Va.)
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Files
Citation
“The Tower 1920 "Echoes From the Minstrel",” Race & Racism at the University of Richmond, accessed August 24, 2019, https://memory.richmond.edu/items/show/36.