Jim Crow was a fictional character developed in the late 1820s by the white entertainer Thomas D. “Daddy” Rice, who said he was inspired by an elderly black man singing a song titled “Jump ...

So that’s where the “solution” came in. A set of segregationist laws, known as Jim Crow after a minstrel show character, were white Southerners’ best attempt to restore their former way of ...

“Jim Crow laws were a collection of state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation. Named after a Black minstrel show character, the laws—which existed for about 100 ...

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