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Jim Crow
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Jim Crow or jim crow  (jm kr)
n.
The systematic practice of discriminating against and segregating Black people, especially as practiced in the American South from the end of Reconstruction to the mid-20th century.
adj.
1. Upholding or practicing discrimination against and segregation of Black people: Jim Crow laws; a Jim Crow town.
2. Reserved or set aside for a racial or ethnic group that is to be discriminated against: "I told them I wouldn't take a Jim Crow job" Ralph Bunche.
[From obsolete Jim Crow, derogatory name for a Black person, ultimately from the title of a 19th-century minstrel song.]
Jim-Crowism (jmkrzm) n.
Jim Crow
Noun
US
1. the policy or practice of segregating Black people
2. Offensive a Black person [from name of song]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.Jim Crow - barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites
color bar, color line, colour bar, colour line
ideological barrier - a barrier to cooperation or interaction resulting from conflicting ideologies
2.jim crow - a crowbar fitted with a claw for pulling nails
crowbar, pry, pry bar, wrecking bar - a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge
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7) Not only does the accumulation of individual acts of resistance shape the nature of power, Kelley's assertion that one way to conceptualize the modern civil rights movement as "a public declaration of a hidden transcript; a direct challenge to Jim Crowism by people who had heretofore resisted quietly" holds particular resonance for the emergence of the DFD in 1964.
The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights ... by Adams, Luther J. / Journal of Social History
In his carefully figured equations, the Fascists are to Jews as Southern supremacists are to Blacks; Aryanism is to humanity as Jim Crowism is to Civil Rights; Nazi Germany is to murdered citizens as the British Empire is to its Black martyrs in South Africa.
Susan Duffy, ed. The Political Plays of Langston Hughes by Miller, R. Baxter / African American Review
Teachers union leader John Wilson sees all this as a matter of creeping Jim Crowism.
Numbers game: North Carolina educrats may shut down the successful ... by Murdock, Deroy / Reason
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