JimCrow

JimCrow
Jim Crow or jim crow (jĭmʹ krōʹ) n.
The systematic practice of discriminating against and segregating Black people, especially as practiced in the American South from the end of Reconstruction to the mid-20th century.
adj.
1. Upholding or practicing discrimination against and segregation of Black people:

Jim Crow laws; a Jim Crow town.

2. Reserved or set aside for a racial or ethnic group that is to be discriminated against: “I told them I wouldn't take a Jim Crow job” (Ralph Bunche).
  [From obsolete Jim Crow, derogatory name for a Black person, ultimately from the title of a 19th-century minstrel song.]   Jimʹ-Crowʹism (jĭmʹkrōʹĭz'əm) n.

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