Jim Crow

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Definition of Jim Crownext
as in discrimination

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Recent Examples of Jim Crow Not only did the boycott fail to keep the company from slapping its Black customers in the face with its Jim Crow costume, but the insult happened with two Black men on the company’s board of directors. — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 6 Sep. 2026 Postcards, prints and trinkets from the Jim Crow era depicted the idea. — Matt Baker, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026 Born in Tallahassee to sharecroppers, Meek was raised during the Jim Crow era and would go on to break racial barriers. — Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2026 When Earl Warren presided, from 1953 to 1969, the Court helped make voting fairer, establish rights for criminal defendants, and dismantle Jim Crow. — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for Jim Crow
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  1. discrimination
  2. segregation
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  • Unions can also be powerful tools for combating racial pay discrimination; the new report shows tripling union membership would narrow the racial wage gap by more than a third.
    — Liz Shuler, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
  • At best, the invitation to become a white-leader draws an oblique link between white paint and the discourse of racial discrimination.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2026
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  • An agent that can both draft and post a journal entry has the same segregation-of-duties problem as a clerk who can do both.
    — Jacqueline DeStefano-Tangorra, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Although this kind of segregation can be seen with greater clarity in DF2, DF4, and DF9, not everyone agrees on how the separation took place.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 14 Oct. 2026
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“Jim Crow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Jim%20Crow. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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