TIL that Jim Crow wasn't a real person, but a caricature of a black stereotype played by a white man in blackface named T.D. Rice in the mid 1800s.

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/who-was-jim-crow/

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/151fcrb/til_that_jim_crow_wasnt_a_real_person_but_a/