Jim Crowism

or jim crowism

[ kroh-iz-uhm ]

noun

1. Jim Crow ( def 1 ).
2. any policy of racial segregation.
3. advocacy of such a policy.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Jim Crowism¹

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40; Jim Crow + -ism

Example Sentences

“It is one of those dichotomies that some of the best soldiers in our military were African American, and at the same time Jim Crowism and ‘separate but equal’ existed,” said Col.

From New York Times

His goal, he wrote, was to “abolish every vestige of Jim Crowism in Pittsburgh.”

From Washington Times

“This is a nation that has gone through slavery, Reconstruction, lynching, Jim Crowism,” Ms. Jackson Lee said Thursday.

From New York Times

For every concerned voice that demanded the President intervene to stop Jim Crowism and call for racial equality, there was an equally concerned voice saying it was the very push for racial equality that was causing all these riots, and that Eleanor Roosevelt, in her never-ending quest to promote black men in the factories and the fields, in the Army and the Navy, was responsible for the national discord.

From Salon

I’m particularly interested in Jim Crowism — how African-Americans earned equality and then had it taken from them.

From New York Times

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