Question

Who was Jim Crow? What did Jim Crow laws do? And what were the black codes?

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Answer 1

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The effort to protect the rights of blacks under Reconstruction was largely crushed by a series of oppressive laws and tactics called Jim Crow and the black codes. Here, an African-American man drinks from a water fountain marked "colored" at a streetcar terminal in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1939.

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Answer 2

- The term “Jim Crow” typically refers to repressive laws and customs once used to restrict black rights. For example, the blacks and whites were force to go to different school, live in different areas etc.
- 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.