Jim Crow wasn’t an actual person, but understanding of who he was will help you make sense of the laws he created.
During the antebellum period, minstrel shows were extremely popular. White actors in blackface would perform as black people for entertainment. Thomas Rice was a famous minstrel performer; among his most popular acts was titled “Jump Jim Crow”. In the mid-1830s, Jim Crow became synonymous with black people broadly, but still in that caricatured form. With this in mind, it may be easier for you to remember the goal of Jim Crow laws: to make black Americans feel inferior, to represent these individuals as less than human, and, most importantly, to keep the vestiges of slavery’s social order intact.
This wasn’t a real law at the time either, this formed a big play to show roles of black’s. This pulled in many attention to racism and more acted upon on laws resourced by those of the Jim Crow plays, and they have been added all around the U.S to practice these roles or acts, and really offended many colored people and caused a lot of protesting or fighting or riots. …show more content…
Jim Crow Laws were statutes and ordinances established between 1874 and 1975 to separate the white and black races in the American South. In theory, it was to create “separate but equal” treatment, but in practice Jim Crow Laws condemned black citizens to inferior treatment and facilities. Education was segregated as were public facilities such as hotels and restaurants under Jim Crow Laws. In reality, Jim Crow laws led to treatment and accommodations that were almost always inferior to those provided to white
During the antebellum period, minstrel shows were extremely popular. White actors in blackface would perform as black people for entertainment. Thomas Rice was a famous minstrel performer; among his most popular acts was titled “Jump Jim Crow”. In the mid-1830s, Jim Crow became synonymous with black people broadly, but still in that caricatured form. With this in mind, it may be easier for you to remember the goal of Jim Crow laws: to make black Americans feel inferior, to represent these individuals as less than human, and, most importantly, to keep the vestiges of slavery’s social order intact.
This wasn’t a real law at the time either, this formed a big play to show roles of black’s. This pulled in many attention to racism and more acted upon on laws resourced by those of the Jim Crow plays, and they have been added all around the U.S to practice these roles or acts, and really offended many colored people and caused a lot of protesting or fighting or riots. …show more content…
Jim Crow Laws were statutes and ordinances established between 1874 and 1975 to separate the white and black races in the American South. In theory, it was to create “separate but equal” treatment, but in practice Jim Crow Laws condemned black citizens to inferior treatment and facilities. Education was segregated as were public facilities such as hotels and restaurants under Jim Crow Laws. In reality, Jim Crow laws led to treatment and accommodations that were almost always inferior to those provided to white