How did the phrase Jim Crow originate?

Answer 1

Jim is just a vague one-size-fits-all name like Joe or John, and crows were black and the slaves were black.

Jim Crow in the original song was not a slave, but a slave master. See related question. Another possibility: derived phonetically from the French phrase, "gens des corbeaux", meaning "people of the raven or crow".

Answer 2

The term 'Jim Crow,' came from a performance by white minstrel performer known as Thomas Rice, who would blacken his face, as was the custom, and dance while chanting 'Jump Jim Crow. Rice allegedly learned this song from a black person.

Answer 3

THE ORIGIN OF "JIM CROW"

Jim Crow laws were named for an ante-bellum mistral show character. The minstrel show is one of the first indigenous forms of American entertainment.

The tradition began in February 1843 when a group of four white men from Virginia, billed as the "Virginia Minstrels", applied black cork to their faces and performed a song-and-dance act in a small hall in New York City. The performance was such a success that the group was invited to tour to other cities and imitators sprang up immediately. These troups were successors to individual performers who imitated Negro singing and dancing. One of the earliest and most successful individual performers was Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice.

Rice, a white actor, was inspired by an elderly Negro in Louisville, Kentucky crooning and dancing to a song that ended with the same chorus:

"Weel about and turn about and do jis so, Eb'ry time I weel about I jump Jim Crow."

Answer 4

The pejorative expression "Jim Crow" rose to popularity as early as 1838, due to a song and dance caricature from 1828 and onward called "Jump Jim Crow". In 1841, the US ambassador to Central America was welcomed at Yucatan, Mexico by a brass band playing "Jump Jim Crow" under the mistaken impression that it was the US national anthem.

Answer 5

Jim Crow was a person in a play that would make fun of African-Americans

Answer 6

the term jim crow came from the southern plantations and the women that were raped. They were sad so they named the time period jim crow.

Answer 7

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