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Alee Temple Famous All Star Minstrel, Alee Temple, A.A.O.N.M.S., Savannah, Ga.: Program, November 20-21, 1950 [cover title]

Savannah, GA: Alee Temple, 1950. Program for a fund-raising minstrel show. Illustrated from photographs, individual and group portraits; ads for local businesses. None of the members of the Temple are pictured in black face, but are cast as “interlocutor,” “chanters,” “end men,”, etc., and given stereotypical names: “Jazbo,” “Rastus,” “Burr-Head,” etc. Decorated color-illustrated wrappers (rubbed, old tideline at head of spine), picturing a minstrel in black face, stapled. Just a good copy. Item #65986

Price: $25.00