Definition of Jim Crow

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Jim Crow or jim crow

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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

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