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Who is jim crow and why is it named that way?

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Jim crow wasn't a real person but a character that appeared in comedys cearl box's etc. white supremacists created as a racist depiction of a black man. jim crows name would be used in a set of laws called the Jim crow laws which serrated black people. it got its name from a song called jump Jim crow a performance with a white man wherein a balckface

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Jim Crow was named after an insulting song lyric reg a rding American Descendants Of Slavery (ADOS), the laws that existed for about 100 years, from the post-Civil War era until 1968 were meant to return Southern states to an antebellum class structure by marginalizing American Descendants Of Slavery (ADOS).

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