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Jim Crow
noun
a practice or policy of segregating or discriminating against Black people, as in public places, public vehicles, or employment.
Disparaging and Offensive.a contemptuous term used to refer to a Black person.
adjective
favoring or supporting a segregationist or discriminatory policy of Jim Crow.
for Black people only.
a Jim Crow school.
jim crow
/ ˈdʒɪm ˈkrəʊ /
noun
the policy or practice of segregating Black people
( as modifier )
jim-crow laws
a derogatory term for a Black person
( as modifier )
a jim-crow saloon
an implement for bending iron bars or rails
a crowbar fitted with a claw
Jim Crow
A descriptive term for the segregation of institutions, businesses, hotels, restaurants, and the like. It also refers to the laws that required racial segregation.
Other 51Թ Forms
- ˈᾱ-ˈǷɾ noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of Jim Crow1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of Jim Crow1
Example Sentences
The family story is told through the lens of Charlie Trammell III, a World War II veteran emotionally scarred by the violence he witnessed on the battlefield and at home in Jim Crow Virginia.
“I think of the challenges, the indignities that my grandparents suffered on a daily basis” living under Jim Crow, Colbert said over lunch recently in his hometown of San Anselmo.
They either directly experienced or otherwise know the history of Jim Crow racism.
But not when it comes to the liberal underpinnings that defined, and in many ways still do define, Minnesota as “The Jim Crow of the North.”
Most of those who inhale Trump's "white genocide" lies wouldn't say flat-out that they want to reinstate apartheid or Jim Crow.
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