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Jim Crow

Or jim crow

noun

  1. a practice or policy of segregating or discriminating against Black people, as in public places, public vehicles, or employment.

  2. Disparaging and Offensive.a contemptuous term used to refer to a Black person.



adjective

  1. favoring or supporting a segregationist or discriminatory policy of Jim Crow.

  2. for Black people only.

    a Jim Crow school.

jim crow

/ ˈdʒɪm ˈkrəʊ /

noun

    1. the policy or practice of segregating Black people

    2. ( as modifier )

      jim-crow laws

    1. a derogatory term for a Black person

    2. ( as modifier )

      a jim-crow saloon

  1. an implement for bending iron bars or rails

  2. a crowbar fitted with a claw

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Jim Crow

  1. A descriptive term for the segregation of institutions, businesses, hotels, restaurants, and the like. It also refers to the laws that required racial segregation.

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Other 51Թ Forms

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of Jim Crow1

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40; so called from the name of a song sung by Thomas Rice (1808–60) in a minstrel show
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of Jim Crow1

C19: from Jim Crow, name of song used as the basis of an act by Thomas Rice (1808–60), American entertainer
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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.

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“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.

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They either directly experienced or otherwise know the history of Jim Crow racism.

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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.”

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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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