Jolly Negro Bank #1 Minstrelsy Racism Location: Jim Crow Exhibition Hall The red and yellow vintage Jolly Negro bank features a caricature of a smiling Black man, embodying the racially insensitive stereotypes prevalent in early 20th-century America. Designed as a coin bank, it reflects the era's problematic representation of African Americans in popular culture. http://meba.famu.edu/jolly-negro-bank-1 _03_0001 https://www.mebacollections.com/s/digitalarchive/item/6395#lg=1&slide=0 eng http://meba.famu.edu/meba-artifacts-collection MEBA Artifacts Collection All rights reserved. The use of any part of these objects and photographs transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system without the prior written consent of Meek-Eaton Black Archives is an infringement of the copyright law.