Smiling Black Man

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Smiling Black Man Caricature

You are viewing a picture of a Smiling Black Man. This is a lithograph advertising the Richards & Pringle's Famous Minstrel Show. The Lithograph was created in 1907, by the US Lithograph Company. This broadside features the image of a Black Man, Billy King, with a very wide smile. The Minstrel show provided entertainment at the expense of African Americans. Minstrel posters such as this one clearly demonstrate the racist attitudes that existed in the early 1900's.

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