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Definition Jim Crow in British English

Jim Crow noun

[uncountable] noun
/ˌdʒɪm ˈkrəʊ/
1

in the US, unfair treatment of black people, 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 British English