The white majority built a system of segregation known as (named after the minstrel shows in which white singers and dancers blackened their faces and pretended to be african americans).

The appropriate response is Jim Crow. Jim Crow was not a man, yet influenced the lives of a large number of individuals. Named following a prevalent nineteenth century minstrel tune that stereotyped African Americans, "Jim Crow" came to exemplify the arrangement of government-authorized racial mistreatment and isolation in the United States.