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This image is from the 1920s. It shows the Churchill’s Minstrels, a minstrel group set up by Will Churchill in c.1906-07.
Minstrel shows were a form of popular entertainment from the early 19th century until well into the 1970s. These shows mostly involved white male performers in blackface. While they had a distinct impact on popular music, dance and other aspects of popular culture, they were founded on the comic enactment of racist stereotypes and are now considered to be exploitative and racially offensive.
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