Jim crow and Jim crow laws?

The term Jim Crow was widely used as a euphemism for black persons, from the color of the bird. The 1832 faux-minstrel song "Jump Jim Crow" (a white portrayal of a slave stereotype) was used to...

Jim Crow Laws are laws that were set in place in the 1900s that separated blacks from whites, like they couldn't use the same restroom as white people, couldn't sit in the front of bus...etc. They...

The Jim Crow laws were basically everyday laws people lived by, it was racial segregation towards any colored peoples. They separated blacks and whites in schools, busses, bathrooms, work etc.

From the 1870s to the end of the 19th century, southern states passed laws that restricted the rights of nonwhites. They enacted laws which made segregation legal. These laws became known as Jim Crow...