JIM CROW
...this was not always the case. Several times, considerably less funding was put into areas of black life compared to that put into white life. For example, black schools often got less than half of the government funding that white schools recieved. After the American Civil War most states in the South passed anti-African American legislation. These became known as Jim Crow laws. This included laws that discriminated against African Americans with concern to attendance in public schools and the use of facilities such as restaurants, theaters, hotels, cinemas and public baths.Trains and buses were also segregated and in many states marriage between whites and African American people. The "Jim Crow" figure was a fixture of the minstrel shows that toured the South. a white, minstrel Minstrel: A term referring to a traveling entertainer,show performer, Thomas "Daddy" Rice, blackened his face with charcoal paste or burnt cork and danced a ridiculous jig while singing the lyrics to the song, "Jump Jim Crow." Rice created this character after seeing (while traveling in the South) a crippled, elderly black man (or some say a young black boy) dancing and singing a song ending with these chorus words: "Weel about and turn about and do jis so, Eb'ry time I weel about I jump Jim Crow." Some historians believe that a Mr. Crow owned the slave who inspired Rice's act--thus the reason for the Jim Crow term in the lyrics. In any case, Rice incorporated the skit into his minstrel a...