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Jim Crow
(redirected from Jim Crowism)

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Jim Crow  (American)
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
Usage notes: Jim Crow was the name of a black character in a 19th century song and dance act.
Jim Crow meant there were no black kids in white schools. (American)
See also: crow


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