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Jim Crow
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jim crow
 (j  m  kr  )
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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 song
OTHER FORMS:
Jim-Crowism
(j m kr z   m)
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(Noun)
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