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Thomas Dartmouth Rice, who gave (c.1828) the first solo performance in blackface and introduced the song-and-dance act Jim Crow, is called the "father of American minstrelsy." The first public performance of a minstrel show was given in 1843 by the Virginia Minstrels, headed by Daniel Decatur Emmett.

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I think the show were very racist because if they wanted to portray black people, why did they pick white people to paint themselves black rather than get an actual black person to play the role.
It would also save up a lot of the make up costs if they actually employed black people for black roles.

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Each show consisted of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music.

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‘These parodies of serious drama and upper-class society were incorporated into an entertainment original to the United States, the formulaic minstrel show.’

‘Perhaps in a sense, this is the problem at the heart of the minstrel show itself: talented human beings must put on masks and become cartoons.’

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a popular stage entertainment featuring songs, dances, and comic dialogue in highly conventionalized patterns, usually performed by white actors in blackface. It developed in the US in the early and mid 19th century.