How did him crow laws get there name

In the early 1830s, the white actor Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice was propelled to stardom for performing "Minstrel Routines" as the fictional "Jim Crow," a character of African American race as someone who was clumsy, dimwitted black slave. This character was pure comic relief. As the show grew in popularity, "Jim Crow" became a widely used derogatory term for blacks. Once the laws came around. Whites quickly adapted the name Jim Crow to the unfair laws for the African Americans. Remembering the character Jim Crow.