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February 2013 Pic of the Month

Segregated Travel and the Uncommon Courage of Rosa Parks

Jim Crow was a character created for a minstrel-show act during the 1830s, the date of this sheet music. The act—featuring a white actor wearing black makeup—was meant to demean and make fun of African Americans. ID 00.4.945.

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