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What Is the Origin of the Term “Jim Crow”?
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Sheet music cover titled Jim Crow Jubilee, featuring racist caricatures of African-American musicians and dancers in exaggerated poses, with ornate lettering above.
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What Is the Origin of the Term “Jim Crow”?: Media

From the end of Reconstruction until the 1960s, racial segregation in the American South was enforced with so-called Jim Crow laws—but who was Jim Crow?
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Jim Crow Jubilee
Jim Crow Jubilee (1847), sheet music cover illustrated with caricatures...
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