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The original Jim Crow
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The phrase "Jim Crow" began as a character in a song, but by the
late 1800s the words were used to describe a set of laws and customs
that nullified amendments to the Constitution and oppressed blacks.
Dr. John Thorp, a cultural anthropologist at the Jim Crow Museum
of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University in Big Rapids,
Mich., said a song sung by blacks in the early 19th century poked fun
at Jim Crow, a slave master, and a law that said blacks couldn't
dance by shuffling their feet.
The phrase entered popular culture in the 1820s when it appeared
in sheet music written by Thomas ...
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Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Vidocq, police detective, 1775; Franz Berwald, composer, 1796; George Catlin, artist and writer, 1796; Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore, poet, 1823; Richard Hol, composer and organist, 1825; Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, surgeon and scientist...
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