The act was called “Jump, Jim Crow” (or “Jumping Jim Crow”). Rice’s routine was a hit in New York City, one of many of places in the North where working-class whites could see blackface ...

“Wheel about and turn about And do jis so. Ev’ry time I wheel about I jump Jim Crow.” When he sang the words “jis so,” Rice would leap into the air and roll his left hand about ...

The Subjective Theater Company (STC) would like to invite audiences to come and be absolutely scandalized and deeply offended by its third production of the 2009/2010 season, JUMP JIM CROW ...

Rice said that on a trip through the South he met a runaway slave, who performed a signature song and dance called jump Jim Crow. Rice’s performances, with skin blackened and drawn on distended ...

Rice gave successful tours across the U.S. and in England of the act called "Jump, Jim Crow" or "Jumping Jim Crow," according to National Geographic. Gradually, the name "Jim Crow" seeped into ...

It’s where Jim Crow began: Weel about and turn about and do jis so, Eb’ry time I weel about I jump Jim Crow. “Jim Crow grew to be minstrelsy’s most famous character,” Blair L.