Jim Crow, a system of laws, came together to form a white supremacy. Jim Crow was actually a man seen by Thomas “Big Daddy” Rice, a big time superstar, when he was performing in Louisville, Kentucky. During this era, white men would put on black clothes, pretending they were black, for Minstrel shows. These were extremely popular throughout the United States. Although it was birthed in Boston in the mid nineteenth century, Jim Crow matures in the South through the constant threat of violence, segregation, disfranchisement, and imagery. Women were beaten and sexually abused, men were hanged. Blacks were not considered to be people, but mere property, even children were mistreated. In 1896, the Supreme Court declared that separate but equa
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