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Jim crow   /dʒɪm kroʊ/   Listen
Jim crow

noun
1.
Barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites.  Synonyms: color bar, color line, colour bar, colour line.
2.
A crowbar fitted with a claw for pulling nails.





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"Jim crow" Quotes from Famous Books



... later found Alwyn on the train facing Southward in the Jim Crow car. How he had decided to go back South he did not know. In fact, he had not decided. He had sat helpless and inactive in the grip of great and shadowed hands, and the thing was as yet incomprehensible. And so it ...
— The Quest of the Silver Fleece - A Novel • W. E. B. Du Bois


Words linked to "Jim crow" :   wrecking bar, colour bar, pry bar, color line, ideological barrier, pry, crowbar, color bar


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