Question

The white majority built a system of segregation known as _____ (named after the minstrel shows in which white singers and dancers blackened their faces and pretended to be african americans).

Answer 1

The appropriate response is Jim Crow. Jim Crow was not a man, yet influenced the lives of a large number of individuals. Named following a prevalent nineteenth century minstrel tune that stereotyped African Americans, "Jim Crow" came to exemplify the arrangement of government-authorized racial mistreatment and isolation in the United States.