Jim Crow
or jim crow
a practice or policy of segregating or discriminating against Black people, as in public places, public vehicles, or employment.
Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a Black person.
favoring or supporting a segregationist or discriminatory policy of Jim Crow.
for Black people only: a Jim Crow school.
Origin of Jim Crow
1Words Nearby Jim Crow
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How to use Jim Crow in a sentence
This mass incarceration is destroying the Black community -- it is, as Michelle Alexander writes, the New Jim Crow.
Thus, during Jim Crow, black men were routinely hanged, castrated, and lynched for alleged sexual assaults against white women.
No Wonder Cosby's Keeping Quiet: He Could Still Be Prosecuted | Jay Michaelson | November 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTEach working in its own way was essential to ending Jim Crow in the South.
Honoring The Late John Doar, A Nearly Forgotten Hero Of The Civil Rights Era | Gary May | November 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSlowly, still falteringly but inexorably, Jim Crow justice was disappearing in the South.
Honoring The Late John Doar, A Nearly Forgotten Hero Of The Civil Rights Era | Gary May | November 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAmerica has obviously made tremendous progress since the days of Jim Crow, Bull Connor, and voter intimidation at the polls.
She has about as much intention of eloping with him as a little girl might have of eloping with a pasteboard Jim Crow.
Confidence | Henry JamesIf you were to have a frank explanation with her, Blanche would very soon throw Jim Crow out of the window.
Confidence | Henry JamesThen—quick as a wink—there was another loud noise, just like that day when Jim Crow fell in the cornfield.
Seven O'Clock Stories | Robert Gordon AndersonFrom the Jim Crow a drowsy porcupine trundled away bristling.
Blazed Trail Stories | Stewart Edward WhiteNo air was ever at the same time so silly and so successful as "Jim Crow."
The Book of the Bush | George Dunderdale
British Dictionary definitions for jim crow
/ (ˈdʒɪm ˈkrəʊ) /
the policy or practice of segregating Black people
(as modifier): jim-crow laws
a derogatory term for a Black person
(as modifier): a jim-crow saloon
an implement for bending iron bars or rails
a crowbar fitted with a claw
Origin of jim crow
1Derived forms of jim crow
- jim-crowism, noun
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Cultural definitions for Jim Crow
A descriptive term for the segregation of institutions, businesses, hotels, restaurants, and the like. It also refers to the laws that required racial segregation.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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