Jim Crow
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According to PBS,
- On the eve of the Civil War, the universal image of the silly Jim Crow minstrel character provided southern whites with one of many stereotypical images of black inferiority that were a fundamental component of white popular culture. By the 1890s, the term had come to mean the separation of blacks from whites and the general customs and laws that subordinated blacks as an inferior people. [1]
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. [2]
See also
External links
- History of Jim Crow - PBS series
- Minstrelsy - Center for American Music
- Encyclopedia of Jim Crow