The act was called “Jump, Jim Crow” (or “Jumping Jim Crow”). Rice’s routine was a hit in New York City, one of many of places in the North where working-class whites could see blackface ...

“Wheel about and turn about And do jis so. Ev’ry time I wheel about I jump Jim Crow.” When he sang the words “jis so,” Rice would leap into the air and roll his left hand about ...

Rice said that on a trip through the South he met a runaway slave, who performed a signature song and dance called jump Jim Crow. Rice’s performances, with skin blackened and drawn on distended ...

O, Jim Crow’s come to town, as you all must know, An’ he weel about, he turn about, he do jis so, An’ every time he weel about he jump Jim Crow. The name “Jim Crow,” meaning anything ...

One of those songs was “Jump Jim Crow”. Within ten years of Rice’s first rendition, the theatrical genre of minstrelsy took hold of audiences in the US, and spread across the British world ...

Jim Fitzpatrick auditioned in a home-made ... hate' after backlash The phrase is thought to have originated from ‘Jump Jim Crow’, a song and dance caricature performed by white actor Thomas ...

One of those songs was “Jump Jim Crow”. Historians have never quite solved the mystery of how, by the 1890s, the mythical figure of Jim Crow became the shorthand name for the system of laws ...