Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun 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-1900s.
- adjective Upholding or practicing discrimination against and segregation of black people.
- adjective Reserved or set aside for a racial or ethnic group that is to be discriminated against.
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- proper noun obsolete A generic name for the
Negro . - proper noun historical Southern United States
racist and especiallysegregationist policies in the late 1800s and early to mid 1900s, taken collectively. - noun military A
World War II code name for patrols along the British coastline to intercept enemy aircraft, originally intended to warn of invasion in 1940. - adjective Discriminatory against African Americans.
- adjective Segregated between African Americans and Caucasians.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Rosa Parks was promptly arrested for her willful disregard for what were known as the Jim Crow laws.
HAVE YOU SEEN MY COUNTRY LATELY? JERRY DOYLE 2010
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LAMB: Did you ever know what the origin is of the name Jim Crow?
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Pierce said his mother was hurt and insulted by the film, because her experience was, in fact, significantly worse than what was portrayed in the film what he was referring to as "Jim Crow lite".
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Pierce said his mother was hurt and insulted by the film, because her experience was, in fact, significantly worse than what was portrayed in the film what he was referring to as "Jim Crow lite".
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Pierce said his mother was hurt and insulted by the film, because her experience was, in fact, significantly worse than what was portrayed in the film what he was referring to as "Jim Crow lite".
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Don't you realize that the infamous vicious regime know as Jim Crow died, and that all Americans are living in a Kumbaya-Shangrila-Utopia of racial bliss?
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Then, again, in the 1950’s, another religious leader gave birth to a different kind of racism; which we know as the Jim Crow era.
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Just days before the Wrigley exhibition, the U.S. Navy announced that, despite yawning manpower shortages, it would delay induction of black sailors until segregated barracks at Chicago’s Great Lakes Naval Training Station could be completed.75 Maintaining Jim Crow, in other words, took precedence over mobilizing for a world war.
Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010
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Just days before the Wrigley exhibition, the U.S. Navy announced that, despite yawning manpower shortages, it would delay induction of black sailors until segregated barracks at Chicago’s Great Lakes Naval Training Station could be completed.75 Maintaining Jim Crow, in other words, took precedence over mobilizing for a world war.
Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010
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Just days before the Wrigley exhibition, the U.S. Navy announced that, despite yawning manpower shortages, it would delay induction of black sailors until segregated barracks at Chicago’s Great Lakes Naval Training Station could be completed.75 Maintaining Jim Crow, in other words, took precedence over mobilizing for a world war.
Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010
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