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jim-crow
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Jim-crowadjective
For negroes only; set aside for used of negroes as a policy of racial discrimination.
Webster Dictionary
Jim-crownoun
a machine for bending or straightening rails
Jim-crownoun
a planing machine with a reversing tool, to plane both ways
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Jim-crow
jim′-krō, n. a tool for bending or straightening iron rails or bars.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of jim-crow in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of jim-crow in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of jim-crow in a Sentence
Reparations for African Americans are based on paying restitution for 250 years of slavery followed by 100 years of racial apartheid, which we often call Jim Crow. So it's really an attempt to address both the moral harm, and the crime that slavery and Jim Crow were, but also the wealth gap that was created by both of these institutions.
First of all, let's get this out of the way, the bill has nothing to do with Jim Crow, anyone making that claim is trying to sell you a political narrative.
People on parole live and work in our cities and towns, and by automatically restoring their right to vote, New York is finally welcoming them as full participants in society. That's a crucial change, one that will ameliorate one of the vestiges of Jim Crow, due to the racial disparities in New York's criminal justice system, nearly three-quarters of those disenfranchised by the ban on voting for people on parole were Black or Latino.
It's like somebody woke up Jim Crow.
Going back and using pejorative terms like Jim Crow—there is nothing in this bill like Jim Crow at all.
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