Jim Crow is the stage name of a popular nineteenth-century minstrel performer, Thomas D. Rice, had come to label anything relating to African-Americans in which including matters of racial segregation. In addition to humanities, among 1920 and 1940, the expedition for racial equality and a search for self-identity among African-Americans stimulated the Harlem Renaissance, an increase of creative expression in the arts centered in a part of Manhattan engaged largely by African-Americans.