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Jim Crow
Jim Crow Jim Crow A negro; -- said to be so called from a popular negro song and dance, the refrain of which is ``Wheel about and turn about and jump Jim Crow,' produced in 1835 by T. D. Rice, a famous negro minstrel. [Slang, U. S.]

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- The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation...
- The Jim Crow persona is a theater character developed by entertainer Thomas D. Rice (1808–1860) and po****rized through his minstrel shows. The character...
- "Jump Jim Crow", often shortened to just "Jim Crow", is a song and dance from 1828 that was done in blackface by white minstrel performer Thomas Dartmouth...
- Look up Jim Crow or Jim Crow law in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern...
- The New Jim Crow: M**** Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is a 2010 book by Mic****e Alexander, a civil rights litigator and legal scholar. The...
- A jim crow or rail bender is a tool for bending rails, consisting of a U-shaped or V-shaped armature with a hefty **** rod in its axis. Deluxe models...
- po****rized a traditional slave song called "Jump Jim Crow". The name became used for the "Jim Crow laws" that enforced racial segregation in the Southern...
- Party which they claim disenfranchises African American voters as the Jim Crow caucus. Democratic strategist James Carville praised the group for being...
- The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan, displays a wide variety of everyday artifacts depicting the...
- The term Jim Crow economy applies to a specific set of economic conditions in the United States during the period when the Jim Crow laws were in effect...