BLACK AND WHITE MINSTRELS

a British group of men and women who sang and danced on the stage and in a popular BBC television show (1958–78). The men had black make-up on their faces. This type of entertainment had been popular in 19th–century America, and Al Jolson had used similar make-up in his films in the 1930s, but by 1978 this had become unacceptable to audiences and the show never returned to television.