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Encyclopedia > Jim Crow

Jim Crow can refer to several subjects:

  • Jim Crow laws, state and local laws in the Southern and border states of the United States from 1876 to 1964 that required racial segregation
  • James F. Crow, Professor Emeritus of Genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • "Jump Jim Crow", the blackface song for which the laws were named, often sung by Thomas Dartmouth Rice, in 1828
  • A character from the 1941 film Dumbo named for the Rice character and the laws
  • Jim Crow (typeface), from the 1890s
  • Jim crow (tool), a tool for bending rails
  • James Crow invented sour-mash in the 1820s @ Labrot & Graham Distillery, now named Woodford Reserve, Woodford County, Kentucky

This box:      The Jim Crow Laws were state and local laws enacted in the Southern and border states of the United States and enforced between 1876 and 1965. ... James F. Crow is Professor Emeritus of Genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ... Jim Crow Jump Jim Crow is a song and dance from 1828 done in blackface by white comedian Thomas Dartmouth (T.D.) Daddy Rice. ... Dumbo is a 1941 animated feature film produced by Walt Disney and first released on October 23, 1941 by RKO Radio Pictures. ... Jim Crow is an American typeface that was created around 1890 for the Dickinson Type Foundry of Boston. ... A jim crow is a tool for bending rails, consisting of a U-shaped or V-shaped armature with a hefty screw rod in its axis. ... Barrels of sour mash whiskey aging at the Jack Daniels distillery The Makers Mark label stating it is a sour mash whiskey Sour mash is not a type or flavor of whiskey as is commonly thought. ...

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Jim Crow laws - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (4449 words)
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enacted in the Southern and border states of the United States and in force between 1876 and 1967 that required racial segregation, especially of fls, in all public facilities.
Since "Jim Crow law" is a blanket term for any of this type of legislation, the exact date of inception for the laws varies by state.
It is thought that the term 'Jim Crow laws' originated from the 1828 popular song Jump Jim Crow, a flface song which made derogatory references to the character of colored people.
Who Was Jim Crow? (780 words)
The name Jim Crow is often used to describe the segregation laws, rules, and customs which arose after Reconstruction ended in 1877 and continued until the mid-1960s.
His Jim Crow song-and-dance routine was an astounding success that took him from Louisville to Cincinnati to Pittsburg to Philadelphia and finally to New York in 1832.
By 1838, the term "Jim Crow" was being used as a collective racial epithet for Blacks, not as offensive as nigger, but as offensive as coon or darkie.
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