Members of Brownie Troop 110 at Our Lady Queen of Peace church in Madison, Wisconsin dressed in blackface for a minstrel show they gave for their mothers, April 23, 1952 [667×955]
In their 70’s today, having spawned 2 or 3 generations of potential (unthinking) racists.
myacc488
Cute in a sense but also weird and uncute.
KingsoftheNorth
Wisconsin checking in–still a deeply, deeply racist part of the country.
blueberryjones
If you find yourself wondering what’s so wrong with this, please take an afternoon of your life and try to watch the 1903 *Uncle Tom’s Cabin*, or *Birth of a Nation* (neither are easy to get through, but you’ll learn a lot). Blackface is such an insidiously harmful, disgusting part of our cultural history.
Wiskid86
1952! I thought this was gonna be way older
gunnergoz
In their 70’s today, having spawned 2 or 3 generations of potential (unthinking) racists.
myacc488
Cute in a sense but also weird and uncute.
KingsoftheNorth
Wisconsin checking in–still a deeply, deeply racist part of the country.
blueberryjones
If you find yourself wondering what’s so wrong with this, please take an afternoon of your life and try to watch the 1903 *Uncle Tom’s Cabin*, or *Birth of a Nation* (neither are easy to get through, but you’ll learn a lot). Blackface is such an insidiously harmful, disgusting part of our cultural history.