Jim Crow Story... That inspired the term...

[5fish]

By today's standard a racist caricature inspired the term "Jim Crow"...

Was Jim Crow a Real Person? | HISTORY

The term traces back to a derogatory minstrel routine from the 1830s.

www.history.com

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. In the early 1830s, the white actor Thomas Dartmouth “Daddy” Rice was propelled to stardom for performing minstrel routines as the fictional “Jim Crow,” a caricature of a clumsy, dimwitted black slave. Rice claimed to have first created the character after witnessing an elderly black man singing a tune called “Jump Jim Crow” in Louisville,

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Rice’s minstrel act proved a massive hit among white audiences, and he later took it on tour around the United States and Great Britain. As the show’s popularity spread, “Jim Crow” became a widely used derogatory term for blacks.

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The term “Jim Crow” typically refers to repressive laws and customs once used to restrict black rights

Jim Crow’s popularity as a fictional character eventually died out, but in the late 19th century the phrase found new life as a blanket term for a wave of anti-black laws laid down after Reconstruction

Jim Crow’s legacy would continue to endure in some Southern states until the 1970s.

I hope everyone reads the full story at the link above,...

 

[Mike12]

Well 5fish did tell us to read it. I don't understand all the time. It is the dumbest one I've ever read. That's all I thought about it. This guy Jim Crow is just dumb, it makes him to be dumb, and thats all he is, and I thought that is why its called Jim Crow. Jump about turn about, Jim crow, couldn't clear away from the ladies, fell in the river, tried to get a boat. blah blah blah. Its actually popular at any point in time? Where do we have that? Not that we can get anyone together on "Dixie", would you think?

 

[5fish]

Famous Minstrels in American History...

List of entertainers who performed in blackface - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Here is Dartmouth Rice... "Jim Crow"

Thomas D. Rice - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Thomas Dartmouth Rice (May 20, 1808 – September 19, 1860), known professionally as Daddy Rice, was an American performer and playwright who performed blackface and used African American vernacular speech, song and dance to become one of the most popular minstrel show entertainers of his time. He is considered the "father of American minstrelsy".[1][2] His act drew on aspects of African American culture and popularized them with a national, and later international, audience.

Rice's "Jim Crow" persona was an ethnic depiction of Africans and their culture. This persona was name-giving for the "Jim Crow laws", local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States between the 1870s and 1965. The character Jim Crow was based on a folk trickster named Jim Crow that was long popular among black slaves. Rice also adapted and popularized a traditional slave song called "Jump Jim Crow".[3]

Here is another summary of the origin...

https://www.osidenews.com/2018/02/04/historically-speaking-talked-man-never/

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Rice’s famous stage persona eventually lent its name to a generalized negative and stereotypical view of black people. The shows peaked in the 1850s, and after Rice’s death in 1860 interest in them faded. There was still some memory of them in the 1870s however, just as the “Jim Crow” segregation laws were surfacing in the United States. The Jim Crow period, which started when segregation rules, laws and customs surfaced after the Reconstruction era ended in the 1870s, existed until the mid-1960s when the struggle for civil rights in the United States gained national attention.

The actual origin of the Jim Crow character has been lost to legend. One story claims it is Rice’s emulation of a black slave that he had seen in his travels through the Southern United States, whose owner was a Mr Crow. Several sources describe Rice encountering an elderly black stableman working in one of the river towns where Rice was performing. According to some accounts the man had a crooked leg and deformed shoulder. He was singing about Jim Crow, and punctuating each stanza with a little jump.

A more likely explanation behind the origin of the character is that Rice had observed and absorbed African-American traditional song and dance over many years. He grew up in a racially-integrated Manhattan neighborhood, and later Rice toured the Southern slave states

 

[5fish]

There is a Jim Crow museum... At Ferris State U.

https://www.ferris.edu/htmls/news/jimcrow/origins.htm

Minstrel shows were popular musical stage shows from the 1830s to the early 1900s. The performers, their faces artificially blackened, played the roles of ignorant, lazy, joyous blacks. Audiences roared with laughter. Thomas Dartmouth Rice is known as the Father of Minstrelsy.

 

[Mike12]

"Cartoon for Kids - Camptown Races" on google/ youtube's 1948, that's got a top popular too? We got "Dixie, Golden Slippers, Camptown Races"
So wait you're about all historical minstrelsy stories or the Jim Crow story and its origin and that making Jim Crow laws?

 

[5fish]

I found a video of someone singing "Jump Jim Crow"...