{"id":1243,"date":"2012-01-04T22:41:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T02:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2013-12-13T08:11:33","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:11:33","slug":"what-is-jim-crow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/what-is-jim-crow\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is “Jim Crow”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In 1829, Jim Crow was both the name of a song and the name of a satirized character written and portrayed on stage by Thomas Dartmouth “Daddy” Rice, who used blackface makeup to darken his skin in order to parody a Black man in this role. Later, Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965 (Wikipedia<\/a>). They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities. Ferris State University’s Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia<\/a> explains, <\/p>\n

Rice’s subsequent blackface characters were Sambos, Coons, and Dandies. White audiences were receptive to the portrayals of Blacks as singing, dancing, grinning fools.<\/p>\n

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. Obviously, the popularity of minstrel shows aided the spread of Jim Crow as a racial slur. This use of the term did not last past a half century. By the end of the 19th Century, the words Jim Crow were less likely to be used to derisively describe Blacks; instead, the phrase Jim Crow was being used to describe laws and customs which oppressed Blacks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The website originally created as a companion site for the Thirteen\/WNET New York series THE RISE AND FALL OF JIM CROW<\/a> contains resources for educators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 1829, Jim Crow was both the name of a song and the name of a satirized character written and portrayed on stage by Thomas Dartmouth “Daddy” Rice, who used blackface makeup to darken his skin in order to parody a Black man in this role. Later, Jim Crow laws were state and local laws … <\/p>\n

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