Definition of Jim Crow in English:
Jim Crow
noun dʒɪmˈkrəʊˌdʒɪm ˈkroʊ
US 1mass noun The former practice of segregating black people in the US.
eventually Jim Crow was abolished on interstate carriers
as modifier Jim Crow laws
Example sentencesExamples
- I recall wondering if the Sons of the Confederacy or some such organization might summon up similar chutzpah to package a Jim Crow tour of the Old South.
- Readers also will learn that black success in a Jim Crow society was necessarily grounded in betrayal of the community.
- By 1913, just as there was for schools, housing, public transportation, there was a Jim Crow section for black Civil War memory.
- When this war comes to an end, will you herd me in a Jim Crow car like cattle?
- Pilgrim is curator of the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Mich.
- Soon after Jerry disappeared, she shook the red dust of south Georgia from her shoes, gathered her brood about her and climbed aboard a Jim Crow train.
- They are the type of laws that supported slavery, bringing about the creation of an Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the type of laws that sustained a Jim Crow era of segregation.
- What Jackson did was an act of protest, not unlike what Rosa Parks committed when she refused to give in to a Jim Crow law.
- 1.1offensive count noun A black person.
2An implement for straightening iron bars or bending rails by screw pressure.
Derivatives
noun
US Firmly locked in place throughout the South by 1915, Jim Crowism had two cardinal features.
Example sentencesExamples
- We are tired of this city using development as a new wave of Jim Crowism.
Origin
Mid 19th century: the name of a black character in a 19th-century plantation song.