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Jim Crowism

Variant of Jim Crow

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Informal traditional discrimination against or segregation of blacks, esp. in the U.S.

Origin: name of an early black minstrel song

Related Forms:

Jim-Crow transitive verb, adjective
Jim Crowism noun

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