jim crow

NOUN
  1. a crowbar fitted with a claw for pulling nails
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  • Although the Jim Crow character as a feature of minstrel shows became popular in the generation before the Civil War, early photographic images of people in blackface are quite rare.
  • This was known as the ' Jim Crow ' system, named after earlier caricature portrayals of blacks.
  • When Jim Crow laws ruled the roost, a Temple janitor pecked away at racism with pen and paper, his sword whetted by iambic pentameter. Temple Daily Telegram News Feed
  • As Michelle Alexander has pointed out in her brilliant book, The New Jim Crow, the mass incarceration of African-American men today is but the reinstitution of a racial caste system under the rubric of being "tough on crime. Janet Langhart Cohen: Dr. King, a Monumental Man
  • The Koch brothers' plan to resegregate schools hit a roadblock when students, parents, teachers, and civil rights leaders united to stop the return to Jim Crow. Robert Greenwald: There Are Many More Koch Brother Secret Sins (VIDEO)
  • The more than three hundred treaties with Native Americans broken by the U.S. government, the "Indian schools" and the reservation system to "Americanize" them and keep them out of sight, the Jim Crow laws, lynchings, legal discrimination, still-existing racist judicial system with its disproportionate numbers of African-American and Hispanic males incarcerated or executed, all resulted. Marginalizing MLK: Ignoring Dr. King's Still-Relevant Speech
  • But in America, he suffered under the oppressiveness of Jim Crow, which forced his oversized personality into a more humble version for his white colleagues.
  • It took a brutal civil war to end slavery and federal troops to topple Jim Crow.
  • I think that the war on certain drugs is a continuation of slavery and Jim Crow, but its effect of disenfranching voters is merely a collateral benefit to its supporters. Is That Legal?: Coincidence? I Think Not.
  • For example, in Latin America neither Jim Crow laws nor the octoroon designation existed.
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