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Original New York Mirror article dated June 19, 1841
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Staffordshire
figures circa 1836 T.D. Rice
as Jim Crow
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Greyhound retraction toy bus, a black man is seated at the back of the bus. In 2007 this
piece was loaned to the History San Jose Museum in San Jose, CA .
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Souvenir "Nigger Head Rock" plate, from Pennington Gap, Virginia. The
rock was name “Nigger Head Rock” because there appears to be a silhouette of black man's head carved in the rock.
You can see the image on the upper right hand side of the plate. The rock's name was was changed to "Great Stone Face
in the 1970's."
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Jim Crow Army tag
Gifted to
Smithsonian's National
Museum
of African American History and Culture
http://nmaahc.si.edu/ in June 2011.
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Game is played by throwing a ball through the mouths of the
three caricature’s boys. Each boy has a different point under their picture. Whomever has the most points at the end
of the game wins.
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Whitman's Pickaninny Peppemints unfolded box. Whitman's sold candy
until the early 2000's when it was purchased by Russell Stover. Pickanniny was spelled several
ways another way the word was spelled is piccanniny.
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P.P. Johnson traveled throughout America
in the late 1800’s and collected souvenirs. See adjacent box for his descriptions of the souvenirs he collected.
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Adjacent black doll sitting next to box was the only doll in the box which leaves
one to believe P.P. Johnson felt that he had collected himself a Little "Nigga" from Florida.
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To listen to “Move Them Niggers North”
click on Move Them North below. This recording is one of many racist songs recorded by Johnny Rebel. See adjacent
picture of record.
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Please e-mail questions
or comments to: blacklegacy@sbcglobal.net, if e-mail link doesn't work cut and paste email address. Web site desgined by Dawn M. Spears All items on this site are part of Black Legacy Images collection.
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