Jim Crow Laws
Rice's minstrel shows gained widespread international acceptance at a time when it was common to see Black people mocked as uneducated and irrational, and his famous stage persona lent its name to a negative and stereotypical view of black people. The shows peaked in the 1850s, and after Rice's death in 1860 interest in them faded. There was still some memory of them in the 1870s however, just as the "Jim Crow" segregation laws were surfacing in the United States. The Jim Crow period, which started when segregation rules, laws and customs surfaced after Reconstruction era ended in the 1870s, existed until the mid-1960s when the struggle for civil rights in the United States gained national attention.
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