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This photograph shows a few of the State's Mates members performing in black face during their minstrel show.

This newspaper photograph shows members of State's Mates rehearsing for their upcoming minstrel show.

This photograph shows several State's Mates members with suitcases performing in their minstrel show.

This photograph shows several of characters in "The Backyard Minstrels," one of which is holding a broom.

This photograph shows two characters in "The Backyard Minstrels" conversing.

This photograph shows two members of State's Mates on stage during their performance of "The Backyard Minstrels."

This item is the script to the theatrical portion of the State's Mates April 1960 variety show, "The Backyard Minstrels." Members of State's Mates portrayed racist caricatures of African Americans in blackface. The use of exaggerated dialect,…

This image shows many of the State's Mates in costume singing on stage during the annual variety show.

This State's Mate posed for the camera in blackface backstage, before the start of the 1960 State's Mates minstrel show.

This image is the cover of the program for "State's Mates Presents: The Backyard Minstrels."