Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. Segregation, desegregation, colorism are all coming into play when it comes to the south in the 1920s.
The category the Jim Crow Laws fits under is Intolerance. Black people were discriminated against by white people because of their race. White people were brutal in their indifference and made their unwillingness known.
Jim Crow was first introduced to the public as an African American character in the black minstrel, like the black and white minstrel represented in this clip. He was played by a white man who was painted with charcoal face paint.
Jim Crow became a racial slur and stayed a racial slur for about half a century. At the end of the 19th century, Jim Crow represented the laws that oppressed black people.
"The Birth of a Nation" is a movie about a significant outcome of the Jim Crow Laws, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). It is based off of Thomas Dixon's "The Clansman" and was introduced in 1915.
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