The origin of the name Jim Crow is disputed by some, but it seems most likely to come from the title character in a minstrel song (possibly written in 1832) and popular from the mid-nineteenth century tothe turn of the twentieth century. |
The origin of the name Jim Crow is disputed by some, but it seems most likely to come from the title character in a minstrel? song (possibly written in 1832) and popular from the mid-nineteenth century to the turn of the twentieth century. |
The modern [civil rights movement]? is often considered to have begun in an act of [civil disobedience]? against the Jim Crow laws when [Rosa Parks]?, a black woman, refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man.
The origin of the name Jim Crow is disputed by some, but it seems most likely to come from the title character in a minstrel? song (possibly written in 1832) and popular from the mid-nineteenth century to the turn of the twentieth century.