Jim Crow
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- noun
- /dʒɪm kroʊ/
- NSFW
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- During the Jim Crow era, racial segregation was enforced in schools and public spaces in the Southern states.
- Jim Crow laws
- Jim Crow segregation
- Jim Crow South
And all this is happening during Jim Crow America.
- And all this is happening during Jim Crow America.
- We gloss gloss over Jim Crow stuff, segregation.
- We don't need to go to how Jim Crow's America defined the Negro problem.
- After the Civil War, less obvious things, but there was Jim Crow.
- It was a thriving black area, but it was also encased in, you know, in Jim Crow essentially, right?
- If Doctor King had dropped the mic, we would still be living up under Jim Crow.
- The criminal justice system was designed, honed, and evolved during the Jim Crow era.
- Most folks couldn't have done as much as black folk have done since we got off of the plantation or off of the Jim Crow system that exists in America.
- She linked slavery with Jim Crow, with mass incarceration and why that was important was she took.
Examples
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Compare that to Jim Crow laws in America.
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Remember that the Jim Crow order began with retrenchment and a radical reduction of government services.
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And all this is happening during Jim Crow America.
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Or how did they get, how did Jim Crow laws stick?
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A year later, Jim Crow became the law of the land.
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And when I was growing up it was Jim Crow South, so it was pretty rough.
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But you know, where, where does the lack of engagement with things like the Civil Rights Act and Jim Crow come from?
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In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.
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Segregation and Jim Crow legislation was mostly aimed at keeping African Americans "in their place."
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Everything from schooling to the layout of post-office lobbies was affected by Jim Crow practices.
Academic text (1992)
Synonyms
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Authorities keep people apart by race or religion, often with different facilities
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Keeping people apart because of their race, for example in schools or public places
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Laws in the United States that kept Black and white people apart, mainly in the South
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A barrier that keeps Black people from taking part equally with white people
A system that keeps people of different races apart and often denies rights to Black people
Surface Forms
Morphology
Jim + Crow
‘Jim Crow’ is a proper-name label for a specific historical system of racial segregation; the literal meanings of 'Jim' (a personal name) and 'crow' (a bird) do not compose to that historical-political meaning. Knowledge of the constituent words therefore does not allow a B1 learner to infer the term’s meaning, which requires cultural and historical background.
Etymology
The name Jim Crow may come from a stage act in the 1800s, when a white actor wore 'blackface' and played a rude, mocking character called Jim Crow. Because the show spread a racist idea, the name later came to stand for the laws and the system of 'segregation' that kept Black and white people apart.