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Jim Crow law
noun
any state law discriminating against Black persons.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of Jim Crow law1
Example Sentences
The book is part horror, part historical fiction in its examination of life under Jim Crow law in the South.
Every slave code, Jim Crow law is derived from this one dude who started the Stono Rebellion.
President Biden denounced the measure, calling it a “Jim Crow” law that would “effectively deny the right to vote to countless voters.”
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.
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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