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Jim Crow or jim crow  (j  m  kr  ) KEY 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-20th century.
ADJECTIVE:
- Upholding or practicing discrimination against and segregation of Black people: Jim Crow laws; a Jim Crow town.
- Reserved or set aside for a racial or ethnic group that is to be discriminated against: "I told them I wouldn't take a Jim Crow job" (Ralph Bunche).
ETYMOLOGY:From obsolete Jim Crow, derogatory name for a Black person, ultimately from the title of a 19th-century minstrel songOTHER FORMS:Jim-Crowism (j m kr z   m) KEY (Noun)
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