Jim Crow
Although popularised by wildly outdated and tone-deaf blackface theatre sketches many decades ago, today the term “Jim Crow” more commonly refers to laws that were once used to restrict the rights of Black Americans. The fictional character of Jim Crow was played by Thomas D. Rice, a caucasian actor who lived and worked in a time before the world had woken up to some of its self-created systemic racism. Thankfully, that is all starting to change as a result of the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
Jim Crow
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