Who was Jim Crow?

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The term Jim Crow is believed to have originated around 1830 when a white, minstrel show performer, Thomas 'Daddy' Rice, blackened his face with charcoal paste or burnt cork and danced a ridiculous jig while singing the lyrics to the song, 'Jump Jim Crow.' Rice created this character after seeing (while traveling in the South) a crippled, elderly black man (or some say a young black boy) dancing and singing a song ending with these chorus words: 'Weel about and turn about and do jis so, Eb'ry time I weel about I jump Jim Crow.' Some historians believe that a Mr. Crow owned the slave who inspired Rice's act--thus the reason for the Jim Crow term in the lyrics. In any case, Rice incorporated the skit into his minstrel act, and by the 1850s the 'Jim Crow' character had become a standard part of the minstrel show scene in America. On the eve of the Civil War, the Jim Crow idea was one of many stereotypical images of black inferiority in the popular culture of the day--along with Sambos, Coons, and Zip Dandies. The word Jim Crow became a racial slur synonymous with black, colored, or Negro in the vocabulary of many {whites;} and by the end of the century acts of racial discrimination toward blacks were often referred to as Jim Crow laws and practices. Dec 17 02, 2:02 AM

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Very specifically, ISTR from a Great Brain Quiz question that Jim Crow was the name given to one of the Australian Aboriginal cricket team that came to the UK and played the first international cricket match here. %5BThis is about 10 years before Australia and England officially met in a white-only match.%5D Dec 17 02, 7:28 PM

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