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The Jim Crow character was a minstrel show persona popularized by white entertainer Thomas Dartmouth Rice in the 1830s. Initially a song-and-dance act, the char

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The Jim Crow character was a minstrel show persona popularized by white entertainer Thomas Dartmouth Rice in the 1830s. Initially a song-and-dance act, the character evolved into a derogatory stereotype of African Americans, and the name 'Jim Crow' eventually became synonymous with the segregationist laws that enforced racial apartheid in the American South.