What is meant by the term "Jim Crowe"?

Inform the Canadian.

Laws passed after the Civil War and the 14th amendment that still restricted the civil rights of african americans up until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed.

"Separate but equal" or at least that's what they called it. It wasn't equal in reality. Basically, they had the water fountains marked whites only and another one coloreds only. There are places that still have it that way only they've removed the signs to look less segregated officially, but the older black people know what it really meant.

and the term refers to laws enforcing segregation from the post-bellum period up through the 1960's.

They're named after a popular character in minstrel shows - Jim Crow was the name of a typical uneducated, rural black character.

it perpetuated the Sambo stereotype. Here are the lyrics:

Verse 1
Come listen all you galls and boys I's jist from Tuckyhoe,
I'm going to sing a little song, my name's Jim Crow,
Weel about and turn about and do jis so,
Eb'ry time I weel about and jump Jim Crow.

Verse 2
Oh I'm a roarer on de fiddle, and down in old Virginny,
They say I play de skyentific like Massa Pagannini.
Weel about and turn about and do jis so,
Eb'ry time I weel about and jump Jim Crow.

Verse 3
I went down to de riber, I didn't mean to stay,
But dere I see so many galls, I couldn't get away.
Weel about and turn about and do jis so,
Eb'ry time I weel about and jump Jim Crow.

Verse 4
I git upon a flat boat, I cotch de uncle Sam,
But I went to see de place where de kill'd Packenham.
Weel about and turn about and do jis so,
Eb'ry time I weel about and jump Jim Crow.

Verse 5
And den I do to Orleans and feel so full of fight,
Dey put me in de Calaboose and keep me dare all night.
Weel about and turn about and do jis so,
Eb'ry time I weel about and jump Jim Crow.


Then after Radical Reconstruction ended and Democrats reasserted control in the South, many states instituted "Black Codes" that were as hard on freed people as slavery had been.

Plus, Jim Crow is also a term for discrimination and segregation in the south. It was a form of extralegal and legal subjugation of black people that only ended during Freedom Summer, 1964. (Some would say that Jim Crow still lives, and not just in the South.)

black and perfomed the Jim Crow act. He's credited with creating the term, if I remember correctly.