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Jim Crow (American)

1. a situation that existed until the 1960's in the south of the US, when black people were treated badly, especially by being separated from white people in public places. Jim Crow meant there were no black kids in white schools.

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2. Jim Crow - a situation that existed until the 1960's in the south of the US, when black people were treated badly, especially by being separated from white people in public places. As soon as he moved to Tenessee, he became aware of the Jim Crow laws. (always before noun)

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7) Not only does the accumulation of individual acts of resistance shape the nature of power, Kelley's assertion that one way to conceptualize the modern civil rights movement as "a public declaration of a hidden transcript; a direct challenge to Jim Crowism by people who had heretofore resisted quietly" holds particular resonance for the emergence of the DFD in 1964. The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights ... by Adams, Luther J. / Journal of Social History In his carefully figured equations, the Fascists are to Jews as Southern supremacists are to Blacks; Aryanism is to humanity as Jim Crowism is to Civil Rights; Nazi Germany is to murdered citizens as the British Empire is to its Black martyrs in South Africa. Susan Duffy, ed. The Political Plays of Langston Hughes by Miller, R. Baxter / African American Review Teachers union leader John Wilson sees all this as a matter of creeping Jim Crowism. Numbers game: North Carolina educrats may shut down the successful ... by Murdock, Deroy / Reason More results

7) Not only does the accumulation of individual acts of resistance shape the nature of power, Kelley's assertion that one way to conceptualize the modern civil rights movement as "a public declaration of a hidden transcript; a direct challenge to Jim Crowism by people who had heretofore resisted quietly" holds particular resonance for the emergence of the DFD in 1964.

The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights ... by Adams, Luther J. / Journal of Social History

In his carefully figured equations, the Fascists are to Jews as Southern supremacists are to Blacks; Aryanism is to humanity as Jim Crowism is to Civil Rights; Nazi Germany is to murdered citizens as the British Empire is to its Black martyrs in South Africa.

Susan Duffy, ed. The Political Plays of Langston Hughes by Miller, R. Baxter / African American Review

Teachers union leader John Wilson sees all this as a matter of creeping Jim Crowism.

Numbers game: North Carolina educrats may shut down the successful ... by Murdock, Deroy / Reason

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