_03_0001 - Jolly Negro Bank #1

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.

• Minstrelsy
• Racism

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• English

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