Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. Jim Crow laws was a way for white people to feel superior towards colored people and to have a way of controlling them without breaking the laws or the constitution. Jim Crow had originated from a man the name of Thomas Dartmouth “Daddy” Rice, who is a performer. Thomas Dartmouth had created Jim Crow as a way to make fun of a clumsy, dim witted, black slave.
Thomas Dartmouth was performing minstrel routines with black chalk on his face and dressed as a black slave, dancing, and singing. Know Jim Crow was a name that was unique because Jim was another word for saying jimmy, like jimming a lock, and that was a crowbar, a crowbar in the 1800’s was sometimes
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1877, Georgia lawmakers enacted a law stipulating that “separate schools shall be provided for white and colored races. Early 1880s, similar state and local segregation laws were adopted across the South, allowing southern whites to deny blacks social, educational, economic, and political equality. Majority of southern states enacted Jim Crow Laws that forbade interracial marriage and cohabitation and allowed the segregation of the races in nursing homes, buses, railroads, restaurants,pool houses, educational institutions, prisons, housing, transportation, and other public accomodations. 1883 U.S. Supreme Court’s agenda was set by states enacting Jim Crow Laws calling for a segregation of the races. It was the Jim Crow Laws through which the beliefs about inferior nature of blacks were perpetrated throughout much of the twentieth century. After slavery ended the South did not like how they were defeated. So after they have rebuilt and became stronger they began passing more segregation laws (separation between blacks and whites) known as Jim Crow