Freebase (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: Origami Origami is the traditional Japanese art of paper folding, which started in the 17th century AD at the latest and was popularized outside of Japan in the mid-1900s. It has since then evolved into a modern art form.
Jim Crow Laws. Jim Crow Laws were statutes and ordinances established between 1874 and 1975 to separate the white and black races in the American South. In theory, it was to create separate but equal treatment, but in practice Jim Crow Laws condemned black citizens to inferior treatment and facilities.im Crow Laws. Jim Crow Laws were statutes and ordinances established between 1874 and 1975 to separate the white and black races in the American South. In theory, it was to create separate but equal treatment, but in practice Jim Crow Laws condemned black citizens to inferior treatment and facilities.
The term Jim Crow originally referred to a black character in an old song, and was the name of a popular dance in the 1820s.Around 1828, Thomas Daddy Rice developed a routine in which he blacked his face, dressed in old clothes, and sang and danced in imitation of an old and decrepit black man.ice published the words to the song, Jump, Jim Crow, in 1830. Beginning in the 1880s, the term Jim Crow saw wide usage as a reference to practices, laws or institutions that arise from or sanction, the physical separation of black people from white people.