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I've been searching youtube for 'Jump Jim Crow' with little success.
If anybody can provide a link to a video I'd be grateful.
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Look here?

https://www.bing.com/search?q=jump+j...=jump+jim+crow
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This clip of the chorus is so short it's repeated three times in 29 seconds.

Here's a longer, instrumental version (with the tune of the chorus varying a bit from what's presented in the other clip).

Here's the Wikipedia article on the song, with lots of lyrical variants. No audio, though.

(BTW, many people are unaware that "The Yellow Rose of Texas" originally had racial connotations, too.)
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Thanks, Ralph, Julie.
I had tracked down those references, but they seemed slim pickings, no doubt because Jim Crow sounds so pejorative nowadays.
(I've been reading up on the Jim Crow laws, and have been wondering how and why they got their name.)
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Jim Crow and minstrelsy both have pretty substantial historiographies.
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(BTW, many people are unaware that "The Yellow Rose of Texas" originally had racial connotations, too.)
Or that Emily Dickinson wrote most of her best poems to that melody.
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Can't fool us, Max--we all know she wrote them to the theme song of Gilligan's Island.

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(I've been reading up on the Jim Crow laws, and have been wondering how and why they got their name.)
The earliest mention I've been able to find of the term "Jim Crow law" seems to be in 1899:

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After the Civil War, southern states passed laws that discriminated against newly freed African Americans; and as early as the 1890s, these laws had gained a nickname. In 1899, North Carolina’s Goldsboro Daily Argus published an article subtitled “How ‘Capt. Tilley’ of the A. & N.C. Road Enforces the Jim Crow Law.”

“Travelers on the Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad during the present month have noted the drawing of the color line in the passenger coaches,” reported the paper. “Captain Tilley … is unceasing in his efforts to see that the color line, otherwise the Jim Crow law, is literally and fearfully enforced.”

Experts don’t really know how a racist performance in the North came to represent racist laws and policies in the South. But they can speculate.

Since the phrase originated in blackface minstrelsy, Lott says that it’s almost “perversely accurate … that it should come to be the name for official segregation and state-sponsored racism.”

“I think probably in the popular white mind,” he says, “it was just used because that’s just how they referred to black people.”

“Sometimes in history a movie comes out or a book comes out and it just changes the language … and you can point at it,” says David Pilgrim, Director of the Jim Crow Museum and Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion at Ferris State University.

“And in just this case,” he says, “I think it just evolved. And I think it was from many sources.”

However it happened, the new meaning stuck. Blackface minstrelsy’s popularity faded (but never died) and T.D. Rice is barely remembered. Most people today don’t know his name. But everybody knows Jim Crow.

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Basically, the laws (and the unwritten social codes) enforcing racial inequality were based on the premise that the racist caricatures like Jim Crow were not caricatures at all, but accurate depictions of non-Whites' delusional inability recognize their inferiority, lack of the self-control needed to handle their own freedom, etc.

BTW, California's Jim Crow laws (referred to as such only retroactively) were mostly anti-Asian, and were supported by anti-Asian caricatures.
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Jim Crow and minstrelsy both have pretty substantial historiographies.
Apropos of that, Quincy, here's a seasonal tidbit:

The origins of "Jingle Bells"

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My mother used to sing this nursery rhyme when I was little:

https://welshgiftshop.com/blogs/wels...-nursery-rhyme

Interesting that Jim Crow made his way to rural Wales, though I'm sure nobody understood who he was.
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