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Adolph Levis, Entrepreneur And Philanthropist, Dies at 89. Adolph Levis, the inventor of the Slim Jim dried meat snack, died on Tuesday in the Hospice by the Sea in Boca Raton, Fla. He was 89. Born in Philadelphia, Mr. Levis, who was known as Al, dropped out of school at 16 and began selling spices, pickles and condiments during the Depression.
THE ORIGIN OF JIM CROW. Jim Crow laws were named for an ante-bellum mistral show character. The minstrel show is one of the first indigenous forms of American entertainment. The tradition began in February 1843 when a group of four white men from Virginia, billed as the Virginia Minstrels, applied black cork to their faces and performed a song-and-dance act in a small hall in New York City.