in the US, unfair treatment of black people, especially in the past, by the use of laws that prevented them from going to the same schools and public places as white people
Synonyms and related words
Race relations, racism and religious hatred
anglophobe
anti-Semite
anti-Semitic
Jim Crow
noun uncountable Americaninformal
US /ˌdʒɪm ˈkroʊ/
DEFINITIONS1
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in the U.S., unfair treatment of African-Americans, especially in the past, by the use of laws that prevented them from going to the same schools and public places as white people