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Definition Jim Crow in American English

Jim Crow noun

[uncountable] noun
/ˌdʒɪm ˈkroʊ/
1

in the U.S., unfair treatment of African-Americans, especially in the past, by the use of laws that prevented them from going to the same schools and public places as white people

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Definition Jim Crow in American English