An overview of the minstrel show from George Mason University

A Mini-Minstrel Show from the University of Virginia; click here another link from UVA on Railton's larger Huck Finn site regarding the minstrel show.

This blackface minstrelsy exhibit from University of Virginia Libraries Special Collections features sound as well as pictures and information.

Here's a page from PBS on the American composer Stephen Foster and the development of the minstrel show in antebellum America; here's a one-page take on Jim Crow from PBS. 

For further exploration of racialist stereotypes in American popular culture, visit the enlightening but disturbing Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University.