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Jim Crow

 
noun
1.
a practice or policy of segregating or discriminating against blacks, as in public places, public vehicles, or employment.
2.
Disparaging and Offensive. a black person.
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1830–40, Americanism; so called from the name of a song sung by Thomas Rice (1808–60) in a minstrel show
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Jim Crow
"black person," 1838, Amer.Eng., originally the name of a black minstrel character in a popular song-and-dance act, from a T.D. Rice song that appeared 1828. Even before that, crow had been a derogatory term for a black man. Association with segregation dates from 1842, in ref. to a railroad car for
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blacks. Modern use as a type of racial discrimination is from 1943.
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Jim Crow definition


A descriptive term for the segregation of institutions, businesses, hotels, restaurants, and the like. It also refers to the laws that required racial segregation.

The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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