jim-crow

Speech parts

1. jim-crow - Noun

2. jim-crow - Adjective

3. jim-crow - Verb

4. Jim-crow - Proper noun

Meaning

A machine for bending or straightening rails.

A planing machine with a reversing tool, to plane both ways.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Alternative names

jim crow

Synonyms

historian reconstruction biographer segregation lynching Great Depression new deal racial discrimination colour bar civil rights movement racial segregation color line color bar desegregation American South
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Hypernyms

pry crowbar pry bar ideological barrier wrecking bar

Examples

African American Twitter users, in particular, were irritated by the statement and took to Twitter to remind everyone that the 1950s were not good for blacks because the decade was part of the era of Jim Crow segregation laws. Source: Internet

After disfranchising most African Americans and many poor whites in the 1901 constitution, the Alabama legislature passed more Jim Crow laws at the beginning of the 20th century to impose segregation in everyday life. Source: Internet

AG says their “baseless attacks" undermine democracy and employ “Jim Crow strategy” to disenfranchise voters. Source: Internet

Again, not new — we all lived with the economics of Jim Crow for a hundred years. Source: Internet

Along with Jim Crow laws that segregated transportation and public facilities, these laws helped to restrict the movement of freed black workers and thereby keep them in a state of poverty and vulnerability." Source: Internet

At the time, public facilities were segregated and Jim Crow was in effect. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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