How Did Jim Crow Law Affect Blacks In America?

Thomas Dartmouth Rice, was an actor who performed skits modeled after a slave. Rice who was a white actor/comedian who dress up in ragged clothing and would paint his skin black. He would sing and dance, in ways to over exaggerate how blacks spoke and acted. However, when speaking about Jim Crow Law, we are not speaking about the character he played. Even though the Jim Crow Law was named after Rice’s character it had nothing to do with his show. What was the Jim Crow law and how did it affect blacks in America (The Origins of Jim Crow)? When we refer to Jim Crow Law, we speak not of Rice’s character, but of a law that was enacted and followed by mainly southern states. Jim Crow Law was established in 1877, and made it legal to discriminate against blacks. Even though slavery had ended, the law established that blacks were second class citizens. The law made it legal to segregated blacks and whites without the fear of punishment (The Origins of Jim Crow). Jim Crow signs
Blacks were not to ever off to shake the hand of a white man, to do so it would show that they were equals. Black men were never to touch a white woman in any manner, to do so could cause the man to be accused of rape. And never should blacks and whites eat a meal together, and if they were in the same room, they were to be separated and the whites were to be served first (The Origins of Jim Crow). What was Jim Crow, it was a racist character, who’s name would be added to a law that made it legal to be racist to blacks. Whites could no longer keep blacks as slaves, however they were protected by law, to keep black and whites separate. Whites seen themselves as superior, and favored by God. Blacks were seen as second class citizens, and even though they were no longer slaves they still had to live underneath the white mans