Gimme Bak Ma Clothes is a performance-based intervention inspired by Thomas Dartmouth Rice, who, in the 1830’s, became the father of American Minstrelsy Theater. This work will include the Liturgic actions of sprinkling of rice on the path of 14th street in memory of “Jim Crow Rice” and his legacy. Specific rituals of cleansing and blessing will involve the use of lime, powder, rum, cinnamon, et cetera, welcoming a new day with shouts of “Gimme Bak Mah Clothes.”