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    Thomas Dartmouth Rice (May 20, 1808 – September 19, 1860) was an American performer and playwright who performed in blackface and used African American...
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  • 1815–19 Thomas D. Rice (1808–1860), American performer in minstrel shows W. Thomas Rice (1912–2006), American railroad executive Tom Rice (soldier)...
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    The Jim Crow persona is a theater character developed by entertainer Thomas D. Rice (1808–1860) and popularized through his minstrel shows. The character...
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    that was done in blackface by white minstrel performer Thomas Dartmouth (T. D.) "Daddy" Rice. The song is speculated to have been taken from Jim Crow...
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  • Crow (character), a persona created by white minstrel show performer Thomas D. Rice Jim Crow economy, the economic system in parts of the United States...
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    Dan Emmett (redirect from Daniel D. Emmet)
    and women, was already an established performance mode at that time—Thomas D. Rice had created the character of Jim Crow nearly a decade earlier, and blackface...
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    he could fool blacks when he mingled with them in the streets. Thomas Dartmouth Rice's successful song-and-dance number, "Jump Jim Crow", brought blackface...
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    annually by Jefferson Awards. In August 2010, Rice received the U.S. Air Force Academy's 2009 Thomas D. White National Defense Award for contributions...
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    (Asian rice)—or, much less commonly, Oryza glaberrima (African rice). Asian rice was domesticated in China some 13,500 to 8,200 years ago; African rice was...
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  • black people performed by white actor Thomas D. Rice in blackface, first performed in 1828. As a result of Rice's fame, Jim Crow had become by 1838 a pejorative...
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    Macmillan. pp. 176–77. doi:10.1057/9781137068774. ISBN 978-1-349-34304-1. Thomas D. Rice (1808–1860) originated the Jim Crow character, inspiring the minstrel...
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    Parker, Thomas and Rice and Parker & Thomas were architectural firms formed in the early 20th century by partners J. Harleston Parker, Douglas H. Thomas, and...
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    of Soap Larry Parks, in the 1946 film The Jolson Story Robert Webb Thomas D. Rice Jimmie Rodgers Mickey Rooney in Babes in Arms (1939) Benny Rubin Harry...
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    September 1829 under the title Love in a Cloud at the Bowery Theatre. Thomas D. Rice did other dramatitizations under the titles Long-Island Juba; or, Love...
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    was part of the repertoire of early blackface performers, including Thomas D. Rice and George Washington Dixon. The title character was one of the earliest...
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    Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien; October 4, 1941 – December 11, 2021) was an American author of gothic fiction, erotic literature, and Bible...
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    Washington Theatre in Washington, D.C., where he appeared in a benefit performance for the minstrel Thomas D. Rice. Jefferson was married twice: at the...
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    Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon, PC, FRS, FGS (8 February 1790 – 7 February 1866) was a British Whig politician, who served as Chancellor...
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  • Rice University, officially William Marsh Rice University, is a private research university in Houston, Texas, United States. It sits on a 300-acre (120 ha)...
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  • Thomas D. Mangelsen (born January 6, 1946) is an American nature and wildlife photographer and conservationist. He is most famous for his photography of...
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    American song that dates to the early 1830s. It was in the repertoire of Thomas D. Rice and other early blackface performers. Musicologist Hans Nathan calls...
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    Wild rice, also called manoomin, mnomen, Psíŋ, Canada rice, Indian rice, or water oats, is any of four species of grasses that form the genus Zizania,...
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    Chase Rice (born September 19, 1985) is an American country music singer, songwriter and reality television personality. He first came to prominence in...
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    2017. Rice was born in Washington, D.C., and attended Stanford University and New College, Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar and received a D.Phil...
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    example an 1832 Bowery Theatre double bill of Junius Brutus Booth and Thomas D. Rice. David Van Arsdale is said to have raised the flag after his father's...
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  • (1898–1981), a football player in the 1926 National Football League season Thomas D. Rice (1808–1860), American blackface minstrel show entertainer Joe Stevenson...
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  • It dates to 1832, when blackface performers such as George Nichols, Thomas D. Rice, and George Washington Dixon began to sing it. These performers and...
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    Jerry Lee Rice (born October 13, 1962) is an American former professional football wide receiver who played for 20 seasons in the National Football League...
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    Old Corn Meal. George Nichols, a blackface circus clown is one, as is Thomas D. Rice, whose "Corn Meal" skit most likely came from seeing Old Corn Meal's...
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    and dance popularised in 1832 by the American minstrel show performer Thomas D. Rice; local stories suggest it could have been the name of the owner of a...
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