>
> Caethwas o Americanwr cynfrodorol (`indiad coch' fel y buaswn i wedi arfer
> dweud) oedd Jim Crow, a ddihangodd o'r De ac aeth i ennill ei fuwoliaeth fel
> canwr ar y strydoedd.  Bu farw yn Virginia tua 1800.  Hwyrach mai un ai dianc
> neu dawnsio yw `chwarae Jim Cro'.
>
> Roedd `Jump Jim Crow' yn gan gweithwyr croenddu ddaeth yn boblogaidd ar ddwy
> ochr yr Iwerydd yng nghanol y ganrif ddiwethaf.  (Fe gewch chi Jump Jim Crow
> ar CD `Arkansas Traveller' Michelle Schocked, ond wn i ddim ai'r gan wreiddiol
> yw honno.)
>
Not having enough Gymraewg (sp?) to follow this, I apologize if I restate
what someone else has already said, but at least on this side of the pond,
Jim Crow has, since just after our Civil War, referred to laws meant to
keep voting rights and other forms of political & legal power out of the
hands of black Americans (poll taxes, literacy requirements, etc).

	mark

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Etymology, n.:
	Some early etymological scholars come up with derivations that
were hard for the public to believe.  The term "etymology" was formed
from the Latin "etus" ("eaten"), the root "mal" ("bad"), and "logy"
("study of").  It meant "the study of things that are hard to swallow."
		-- Mike Kellen