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GCIDE

  1. Jim-crowadjective

    For negroes only; set aside for used of negroes as a policy of racial discrimination.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Jim-crownoun

    a machine for bending or straightening rails

  2. Jim-crownoun

    a planing machine with a reversing tool, to plane both ways

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Jim-crow

    jim′-krō, n. a tool for bending or straightening iron rails or bars.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Jim-crow in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Jim-crow in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Jim-crow in a Sentence

  1. Marc Leepson:

    The analogy that comes to mind is Confederate statues, most Confederate statues weren't put up right after the Civil War. They were part of the spreading of the Lost Cause Theory, and then Jim Crow and segregation. They had a purpose in the eyes of the public.

  2. Jennifer McClellan:

    I drive past a Robert E. Lee statue... every day going into Virginia General Assembly knowing I'm their worst nightmare, a Black woman working to eradicate the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow that they worked to keep in place.

  3. The NAACP president:

    The pattern of Trump's misconduct is unmistakable and has proven time and time again, that he is unfit to serve as the President of this country, the NAACP president has led one of the most racist and xenophobic administrations since the Jim Crow era. Trump needs to know that he is not above the law and the crimes that he has committed and he must be prosecuted.

  4. Joe Biden:

    Youve got Jim Crow sneaking back in, you know what happens when you have an equal right to vote? They lose.

  5. Chuck Collins:

    People say' slavery was so long ago' or' my family didn't own slaves.' But the key thing to understand is that the unpaid labor of millions -- and the legacy of slavery, Jim Crow laws, discrimination in mortgage lending and a race-based system of mass incarceration -- created uncompensated wealth for individuals and white society as a whole.

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