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Jim Crow law

noun

U.S. History.
  1. any state law discriminating against Black persons.



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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of Jim Crow law1

An Americanism dating back to 1890–95
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The book is part horror, part historical fiction in its examination of life under Jim Crow law in the South.

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Every slave code, Jim Crow law is derived from this one dude who started the Stono Rebellion.

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President Biden denounced the measure, calling it a “Jim Crow” law that would “effectively deny the right to vote to countless voters.”

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Their marriage license is still at the county courthouse in Marion, logged in a book marked “COLORED” in keeping with the Jim Crow law at the time that required segregating everything by race, even marriage records.

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In its suit, the Justice Department specifically cites one of the cases that was brought over a Texas Jim Crow law that excluded Blacks from participating in primaries, which was struck down by the Supreme Court in 1944.

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