The Last Minstrel Show?
Telling the tragic tale of ‘The Scottsboro Boys’ with happy-go-lucky minstrelsy may show audacity, but it lacks empathy.
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Telling the tragic tale of ‘The Scottsboro Boys’ with happy-go-lucky minstrelsy may show audacity, but it lacks empathy.
Minstrelsy’s poisoned history bamboozles a compendium of Jim Crow plays.