Mocked the African American as being lazy, stupid and buffoonsish "Jim Crow," or "Jump Jim Crow," was the name of a minstrel practice performed in 1828 by its author, Thomas Dartmouth ("Daddy") Rice, and by many imitators. The term came to be a derogatory epithet for blacks and a designation of their segregated life. A song and dance done by a white performer with black make up in the 1820’s. Mocked the African American as being lazy, stupid and buffoonsish https://youtu.be/ALTam2L9NhE

The roots of Jim Crow laws began as early as 1865, immediately following the ratification of the 13th Amendment freeing four million slaves. They were called Black codes. It legally imposed black inferiority.

Anyone of color, or of probable or strongly suspected black ancestry in any degree, was a "person of color.“ The segregation principle was extended to all municipalities, schools, parks, cemeteries, theaters, and restaurants in an effort to prevent any contact between blacks and whites as equals. The laws were enforced by white intimidation (lynching being foremost among them) of blacks. The laws were intended to keep African Americans in their place under conditions that were only a little less oppressive than under slavery. https://aaregistry.org/story/jim-crow-laws-were-meant-to-enslave/

The Jim Crow Laws