Jim Crow law
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- noun
- /dʒɪm kroʊ lɔ/
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- During more contemporary times, a strong sense of spirituality framed the African American response to social injustices such as Jim Crow laws, institutional racism and discrimination, as well as social and educational inequities.
Or how did they get, how did Jim Crow laws stick?
- Or how did they get, how did Jim Crow laws stick?
- I want to be on the side that when things were sent back to the states, Jim Crow laws and there was segregation.
- It is still the system at the peak of the creation of all these Jim Crow laws, that system of sharecropping.
Examples
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Forty years ago, the federal courts stepped in to block Jim Crow laws at the state level.
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I would be in favor of Jim Crow laws now.
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Some of her family came to Philadelphia from the South, leaving Jim Crow laws behind.
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Imagine it is 1950 and Jim Crow laws and segregation are in full force.
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Although the system of chattel slavery was removed, Jim Crow laws stood in the way of African American freedom.
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Starting in the late 1950s, the Civil Rights movement made a tremendous impact on African American life, being responsible for the removal of "separate but equal" Jim Crow laws by the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision in 1954.
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Richmond was the first southern city to embrace racial zoning in 1910 in the wake of Jim Crow laws passed in the 1890s.
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Nesbitt: History can be rather careless about who and what it remembers. NARRATOR 2: The discussion moves on to Jim Crow laws. HISTORIAN 3: Jim Crow laws were created to keep black citizens apart from whites. HISTORIAN 1: In states that had these laws, black Americans weren't allowed to go to the same schools, or even use the same public bathrooms as white people.
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The Voting Rights Act ended poll taxes, literacy tests, and other Jim Crow laws that kept blacks from voting.
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In city after city, blacks challenged Jim Crow laws with sit-ins, protests, and confrontations, eventually ending legal segregation.
Synonyms
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Authorities keep people apart by race or religion, often with different facilities
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Laws and social rules that kept Black and white people separate in the Southern United States
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Keeping people apart because of their race, for example in schools or public places
A system that keeps people of different races apart and often denies rights to Black people
Surface Forms
Morphology
Jim + Crow + law
The term 'Jim Crow law' is an eponymous, culture-specific label for historical U.S. racial segregation statutes (derived from a racist minstrel-character), so its meaning is not compositionally derived from 'Jim' + 'Crow' + 'law'. A B1 learner who knows the individual words would not be able to infer this historical and socially specific sense without prior cultural or historical knowledge.
Etymology
Jim Crow law gets its name from a racist stage character called Jim Crow, created by a white performer in the 1800s who made fun of Black people, and the name later began to mean the laws that kept Black and white people apart. That's why Jim Crow law means the laws that enforced 'racial segregation'.