Jim Crow

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Jim Crow can refer to several subjects:

  • Jim Crow laws, state and local laws in the Southern and border states of the United States from 1876 to 1964 that required racial segregation
  • "Jump Jim Crow", the blackface song for which the laws were named, often sung by Thomas Dartmouth Rice, in 1828
  • A character from the 1941 film Dumbo named for the Rice character and the laws
  • Jim Crow (typeface), from the 1890s
  • Jim crow (tool), a tool for bending rails
  • Jim Crow, a rap group from Atlanta, Georgia
  • James F. Crow, Professor Emeritus of Genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • James Crow invented sour-mash in the 1820s @ Labrot & Graham Distillery, now named Woodford Reserve, Woodford County, Kentucky
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