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Homer Plessy was seven-eighths White and one-eighth Black pejoratively referred to as an “octoroon” in the 19th century. Plessy came of age during the age of Reconstruction in New. ....
Jim Crow law, in U.S. history, any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s. Jim Crow was the name of a minstrel routine (actually Jump Jim Crow) performed beginning in 1828 by its author, Thomas Dartmouth (“Daddy”) Rice, and by many imitators, including actor Joseph Jefferson. The term came to be a derogatory epithet for African Americans and a designation for their segregated life. From the late 1870s, Southern state legislatures, no longer controlled by so-called carpetbaggers and freedmen, ....
The conceit is the presumption that public officials possessed sufficient wisdom, competence and resources to micro-manage resources such that whites and non-whites could be separated in ways that yielded equality. ....