Confronting Our Racist Past: Westminster College, Minstrelsy, and White Supremacist Narratives
Description
This collection interrogates and brings to light Westminster College yearbook images which utilize blackface, minstrel shows, and racist cartoons from the 1920s to the the 1960s.
Collection Items
Jokes 1920
A cartoon head of a minstrel show figure as introduction to "jokes" section of 1920 Westminster Etosian yearbook
"The End" 1923
!["The End" 1923](https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/58675/archive/square_thumbnails/9c2e180db48fb70d86a00aea25dc1e4c.jpg?Expires=1717027200&Signature=PKjGgEWFx7mBAimESqS4JrFsyw8LXRjdJOsjPpWeOv0PjOKpli7xdKeT6nI-4Kc343cW5Mk3P5WYuiWU2BBh2XYk7CT67qkYj2%7EsrwwdShouUovbEsT6%7EWpE-nL%7EVDAVjziBoMBaFI7%7EzewfIFWXx%7EZfkymI75LkBqI8qKSx2n05cgmelAViKB1jAopydTq%7E-eoKueRER8xAx%7ETnK5WYkIlmvNe6hM-TVWZYd3sVv1tYvV1XGFZ4hYHJ-XfGwSnXzGiMUc4XJNQuWWlzPWgp9ZyrOG37PyY9OxU%7E5Tw9AQE3-Vl6ppD3HSkXHY9fRrdK3EPkAY-cEV4CojGu0w-iBg__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM ""The End" 1923")
1923 Etosian yearbook cartoon of Klansmen chasing African American man with rope and gun
Westminster Minstrel Show 1946
1946 yearbook photograph of four Westminster students in blackface