536
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Line 6:
Line 6: + +
"Jim Crow" laws.
The Center for American Music says:
The Center for American Music says:
:The "father of American minstrelsy" was Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice, who, between 1828 and 1831, developed a song-and-dance routine in which he impersonated an old, crippled black slave, dubbed Jim Crow. [http://www.pitt.edu/~amerimus/minstrel.htm]
:The "father of American minstrelsy" was Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice, who, between 1828 and 1831, developed a song-and-dance routine in which he impersonated an old, crippled black slave, dubbed Jim Crow. [http://www.pitt.edu/~amerimus/minstrel.htm]
The phrase "Jim Crow" is commonly used to refer to race relations in the American south before the advent of the [[Civil Rights]] movement, as well as to the laws which codified and maintained those relations.
==See also==
==See also==