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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 831473" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p>The phrase "Jim Crow Law" first appeared in 1904 according to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_American_English" target="_blank">Dictionary of American English</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_Laws#cite_note-1" target="_blank">[2]</a> although there is some evidence of earlier usage.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_Laws#cite_note-scjc7-2" target="_blank">[3]</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_Laws#cite_note-3" target="_blank">[4]</a> The origin of the phrase "Jim Crow" has often been attributed to "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump_Jim_Crow" target="_blank">Jump Jim Crow</a>", a song-and-dance <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caricature" target="_blank">caricature</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American" target="_blank">African Americans</a> performed by white actor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_D._Rice" target="_blank">Thomas D. Rice</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackface" target="_blank">blackface</a>, which first surfaced in 1832 and was used to satirize <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson" target="_blank">Andrew Jackson</a>'s populist policies. As a result of Rice's fame, "Jim Crow" had become a pejorative expression meaning "African American" by 1838, and from this the laws of racial segregation became known as Jim Crow laws.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_Laws#cite_note-scjc7-2" target="_blank">[3]</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 831473, member: 1246"] The phrase "Jim Crow Law" first appeared in 1904 according to the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_American_English"]Dictionary of American English[/URL],[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_Laws#cite_note-1"][2][/URL] although there is some evidence of earlier usage.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_Laws#cite_note-scjc7-2"][3][/URL] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_Laws#cite_note-3"][4][/URL] The origin of the phrase "Jim Crow" has often been attributed to "[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump_Jim_Crow"]Jump Jim Crow[/URL]", a song-and-dance [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caricature"]caricature[/URL] of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American"]African Americans[/URL] performed by white actor [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_D._Rice"]Thomas D. Rice[/URL] in [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackface"]blackface[/URL], which first surfaced in 1832 and was used to satirize [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson"]Andrew Jackson[/URL]'s populist policies. As a result of Rice's fame, "Jim Crow" had become a pejorative expression meaning "African American" by 1838, and from this the laws of racial segregation became known as Jim Crow laws.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_Laws#cite_note-scjc7-2"][3][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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