Answer:
It shall be unlawful for a negro and white person to play together or in company with each other at any game of pool or billiards." This selection is an example of a Jim Crow law that was in effect in the state of Alabama from the late 19th century to the early 20th century.Jim Crow was the name of a minstrel character created in 1828 by Thomas Dartmouth ("Daddy") Rice. Rice’s comedy routines and the popular song “Jump, Jim Crow” established the common name for laws that enforced racial prejudice and denied human rights to black people in the United States.
