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| | Jim Crow |
 | | The term Jim Crow probably originated in 19th-century minstrelsy, and it had some pre-Civil War usage, not in the South but in the North, to describe separate facilities for fls and whites, including steamboats, hotels and restaurants. |
 | | Jim Crowism was given the legal stamp of approval in the "separate-but-equal" principle in the Plessy v. |
 | | During the first half of the 20th century Jim Crow was physically embodied in separate water fountains, eating places, bathrooms, Bibles in courtrooms and pervasive signs stating "Colored" and "White." The Brown v. |
| www.heritagecenter.com /Museum/Exhibits/blackedu/jimcrow.htm (778 words) |
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