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Nickname for any law which racially segregated public facilities and which was enacted in Southern and border states in the United States between 1876 and 1965.
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Jim Crow law — U.S. Hist. any state law discriminating against black persons. Cf. Black Code. [1890 95, Amer.] * * * Law that enforced racial segregation in the U.S. South between 1877 and the 1950s. The term, taken from a minstrel show routine, became a… … Universalium
Jim Crow law — U.S. Hist. any state law discriminating against black persons. Cf. Black Code. [1890 95, Amer.] … Useful english dictionary
Jim Crow laws — n. Laws used in the first half of the twentieth century to segregate the races. See also segregate, desegregate The Essential Law Dictionary. Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008 … Law dictionary
Jim Crow Law — n. legal racial discrimination against African Americans … English contemporary dictionary
Jim Crow laws — Jim Crow redirects here. For other uses, see Jim Crow (disambiguation). Part of a series on … Wikipedia
Jim Crow — Entrada para negros en un cine. Las leyes de Jim Crow fueron unas leyes estatales y locales en los Estados Unidos promulgadas entre 1876 y 1965, que asignaban la segregación racial en todas las instalaciones públicas por mandato de iure bajo el… … Wikipedia Español
Jim Crow — Synonyms and related words: Jim Crow law, alien, anti Semitism, apartheid, apartness, black power, black supremacy, chauvinism, class consciousness, class distinction, class hatred, class prejudice, class war, color bar, color line, detachment,… … Moby Thesaurus
Jim — /jim/, n. a male given name, form of James. * * * (as used in expressions) Beckwourth Jim Bowie Jim Bridger Jim Brown Jim Henson Jim Wong Tung Jim Jim Crow Law Jones Jim Morrison Jim Player Gary Jim Thorpe Jim * * * … Universalium
Law — /law/, n. 1. Andrew Bonar /bon euhr/, 1858 1923, English statesman, born in Canada: prime minister 1922 23. 2. John, 1671 1729, Scottish financier. 3. William, 1686 1761, English clergyman and devotional writer. * * * I Discipline and profession… … Universalium
jim — /jeem/, n. the fifth letter of the Arabic alphabet. [ < Ar] * * * (as used in expressions) Beckwourth Jim Bowie Jim Bridger Jim Brown Jim Henson Jim Wong Tung Jim Jim Crow Law Jones Jim Morrison Jim Player Gary Jim Thorpe Jim * * * … Universalium
