According to Edmon S. Conner, an actor who worked with Rice early in his career, the alleged encounter happened in Louisville, Kentucky. Conner and Rice were both engaged for a summer season at the city theater, which at the back overlooked a livery stable. An elderly and deformed slave working in the stable yard often performed a song and dance he had improvised for his own amusement. The actors saw him, and Rice "watched him closely, and saw that here was a character unknown to the stage. He wrote several verses, changed the air somewhat, quickened it a good deal, made up exactly like Daddy and sang it to a Louisville audience. They were wild with delight..." According to Conner, the livery stable was owned by a white man named Crow, whose name the elderly slave adopted. New York Times, 5 de junio de 1881. "An Old Actor's Memories: what Mr Edmon S. Conner recalls about his career" [1]
Doe, John. «Origin of the term 'Jim Crow'». University of Illinois en Chicago. Archivado desde el original el 19 de diciembre de 2008. Consultado el 24 de mayo de 2015.
Doe, John. «Origin of the term 'Jim Crow'». University of Illinois en Chicago. Archivado desde el original el 19 de diciembre de 2008. Consultado el 24 de mayo de 2015.
