Likewise, the representation of black children as "alligator bait" was perpetuated in motion pictures and popular song — for example, the not-so-sweet lullaby "Mammy's Little Alligator Bait ...

This postcard from 1921, for example, labels Black babies as “alligator bait.” And this blatantly racist 1908 article in The Washington Times tells the story of “pickaninnies,” a racial ...