Jim Crow laws
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The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century that enforced racial segregation. The origin of the term Jim Cro
c. 1832 illustration of Thomas D. Rice as Jim Crow, who the laws were named after
Freedmen voting in New Orleans in 1867
Sign for the "colored" waiting room at a bus station in Durham, North Carolina, May 1940
1904 caricature of "White" and "Jim Crow" rail cars by John T. McCutcheon. Despite Jim Crow's legal pretense that the races be "separate but equal" under the law, non-whites were given inferior facilities and treatment.
Thomas D. Rice
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Thomas Dartmouth Rice was an American performer and playwright who performed in blackface and used African-American vernacular speech, song and dance to become one of the most popular minstrel show en
Jim Crow laws
…refers to slave singing that incorporated an African dance called "Jump Jim Crow". "Jump Jim Crow" became a minstrel show dance performed by white actor Thomas D. Rice in blackface, first performed in 1828. Many other white minstrel dancers in blackface copied it for white audiences. According to The Jim Crow Encyclopedia…
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