Jim+Crow+Laws

To Kill a Mocking Bird [|Jim Crow] Jim Crow Laws [|The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow]

The name “Jim Crow” came from a white man in blackface. A white entertainer named Thomas Dartmouth Rice wrote a song-and-dance tune that became an international hit in the 1830s. By 1838 Jim Crow was introduced into the language as a synonym for Negro.