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Jim Crow was a pre-civil war character in a minstrel show, A white man was made up as a black man by make-up, an incorporated character called Jim Crow, in 1832. Soon the term Jim Crow became on euphemism for “Negro” and the term Jim Crow Laws became a euphemism for legal segregation.
Jim Crow was not just a set of anti-black segregation laws though but was a way of life. It was a racial hate system that ran mainly in southern states of America in between 1877 and the middle of the 1960's. Jim Crow portrayed the legitimization of black hatred. The highly intelligent as well as the poor white community saw black people intellectually and culturally inferior to themselves, all societies of white people including Christian ministers, supported the oppression of the black community.
The Jim Crow system was strengthened by many irrational beliefs such as: Whites are superior to Blacks in all important ways including intelligence, morality and civilized behavior; White and......

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