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Jim-Crow

Jim-Crow

 
pronunciation:
jIm kro
part of speech: adjective
definition 1: (informal, sometimes l.c.) enforcing or promoting discrimination against or the segregation of black Americans in the United States, particularly in the South during the period beginning in the late 1870s and extending into the 1960s.
Jim-Crow politics.Jim-Crow laws.
definition 2: "for the use of blacks only," as designated by Jim-Crow laws.
a Jim-Crow water fountain