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Image of blackface minstrelsy performances by the St. Joe's junior class of 1960 on page 99 of “The Greatonian” 1959 yearbook. PHOTO COURTESY OF SJU ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

St. Joe’s history with blackface minstrelsy

Dominique Joe April 3, 2019

On the second page of the May 27, 1949 issue of The Hawk, a story about the university’s annual Junior Week was published, noting that the “high spot of the week and the surprise of the year was the...

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