Question

Which of the following explains the origin of Jim Crow?
A. Jim Crow was a southern politician after Reconstruction who passed laws that required people to be separated by race.
B. Jim Crow was a stereotype of Black Americans after Reconstruction, later naming laws that gave Black men the right to vote.
C. Jim Crow was the stage name of a White actor playing a Black man, later named the laws that separated people by race.
D. Jim Crow was a fixed image of Black Americans that developed into Black codes to re-establish social order in the South.

Answer 1

C. Jim Crow began as the stage name/character created by a white minstrel performer (blackface) and later the term was used for the laws and practices that enforced racial segregation.