Jim Crow was the Era immediately after the end of slavery due to the Emancipation Proclamation signed by Abraham Lincoln. The term Jim Crow originates from a Minstrel Show in the 1830s. The performer wore Blackface and danced a routine making fun of a silly black person named "Jim Crow"; the name became the face of this racial caste system primarily operated in southern and border states between 1877 and the mid-1960s. At first glance/mention, it will be seen as a set of rigid anti-black laws to maintain control over African Americans after slavery, but it was so much more. In slavery, African Americans were seen as 3/5th of a person due to the Three-Fifths Compromise of 1787, unfortunately, nothing changed after their freedom was given; due to Jim Crow, they were seen as second-class citizens. Jim Crow was a time of legal anti-black racism and that's the point a lot of people forget. It also encouraged many stereotypes of Blackness that are still present today through various ways.

During Jim Crow, as previously mentioned, African Americans had stringent rules to follow or were faced with very harsh and dehumanizing consequences. These rules include:

• "Never assert or even intimate that a white person is lying."

• "Never impute dishonorable intentions to a white person."

• "Never suggest that a white person is from an inferior class."

• "Never lay claim to, or overly demonstrate, superior knowledge or intelligence."

• "Never curse a white person."

• "Never laugh derisively at a white person."

• "Never comment upon the appearance of a white female."

They also had very serious social norms to follow as well including:

• "A black male could not offer his hand (to shake hands) with a white male because it implied being socially equal. Obviously, a black male could not offer his hand or any other part of his body to a white woman, because he risked being accused of rape."

• "Black and white people were not supposed to eat together. If they did eat together, white people were to be served first, and some sort of partition was to be placed between them."

• "Under no circumstance was a black male to offer to light the cigarette of a white female -- that gesture implied intimacy."

• "Black people were not allowed to show public affection toward one another in public, especially kissing, because it offended white people."

• "Jim Crow etiquette prescribed that black people were introduced to white people, never white people to black people. For example: 'Mr. Peters (the white person), this is Charlie (the black person), that I spoke to you about.'"

• "White people did not use courtesy titles of respect when referring to black people, for example, Mr., Mrs., Miss., Sir, or Ma'am. Instead, black people were called by their first names. Black people had to use courtesy titles when referring to white people, and were not allowed to call them by their first names."

• "If a black person rode in a car driven by a white person, the black person sat in the back seat, or the back of a truck."

• "White motorists had the right-of-way at all intersections."

The most common punishment for defining or failing to respect these standards was lynchings. They were often public displays of dehumanizing punishment and disrespect. They were performed by what was called Lynch Mobs and were a spectacle to see for the white citizens in these communities.

• Also, Jim Crow was a time of severe separation between white people and black people. White ministries taught that the White race was the superior race in all important ways; making it okay to mistreat and dehumanize those outside of it. This understanding is the reason why Jim Crow was present for so long until African Americans stood up against mistreatment and abuse. It also allowed for things such as Segregation, disenfranchisement, and many other things such as:

• "Barbers. No colored barber shall serve as a barber (to) white girls or women (Georgia)."

• "Blind Wards. The board of trustees shall...maintain a separate building...on separate ground for the admission, care, instruction, and support of all blind persons of the colored or black race (Louisiana)."

• "Burial. The officer in charge shall not bury, or allow to be buried, any colored persons upon ground set apart or used for the burial of white persons (Georgia)."

• "Buses.All passenger stations in this state operated by any motor transportation company shall have separate waiting rooms or space and separate ticket windows for the white and colored races (Alabama)."

• "Child Custody. It shall be unlawful for any parent, relative, or other white person in this State, having the control or custody of any white child, by right of guardianship, natural or acquired, or otherwise, to dispose of, give or surrender such white child permanently into the custody, control, maintenance, or support, of a negro (South Carolina)."

• "Education.The schools for white children and the schools for negro children shall be conducted separately (Florida)."

• "Libraries. The state librarian is directed to fit up and maintain a separate place for the use of the colored people who may come to the library for the purpose of reading books or periodicals (North Carolina)."

• "Mental Hospitals. The Board of Control shall see that proper and distinct apartments are arranged for said patients, so that in no case shall Negroes and white persons be together (Georgia)."

• "Militia. The white and colored militia shall be separately enrolled, and shall never be compelled to serve in the same organization. No organization of colored troops shall be permitted where white troops are available and where whites are permitted to be organized, colored troops shall be under the command of white officers (North Carolina)."

• "Nurses. No person or corporation shall require any White female nurse to nurse in wards or rooms in hospitals, either public or private, in which negro men are placed (Alabama)."

• "Prisons. The warden shall see that the white convicts shall have separate apartments for both eating and sleeping from the negro convicts (Mississippi)."

• "Reform Schools. The children of white and colored races committed to the houses of reform shall be kept entirely separate from each other (Kentucky)."

• "Teaching. Any instructor who shall teach in any school, college or institution where members of the white and colored race are received and enrolled as pupils for instruction shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined... (Oklahoma)."

• "Wine and Beer. All persons licensed to conduct the business of selling beer or wine...shall serve either white people exclusively or colored people exclusively and shall not sell to the two races within the same room at any time (Georgia)."