Jim Crow

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Recent Examples of Jim Crow During both the Jim Crow era and the civil-rights movement, Black scholars and activists in particular emphasized Washington’s slaveholding to make clear the deep roots of modern racial injustices. — John Garrison Marks, The Atlantic, 25 July 2026 The Great Migration saw Black people leaving the expanding Jim Crow apparatus in the South to cities further north. — Steven Johnson, Washington Post, 14 July 2026 One of the most notorious lynchings during the Jim Crow period in America was of Leo Frank, a Jewish man. — John Blake, CNN Money, 5 July 2026 Jim Crow-era copies of the Green Book – a directory of businesses that would accommodate Black road trippers – show just how few options there were. — Daniel Milowski, The Conversation, 29 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for Jim Crow
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  1. discrimination
  2. segregation
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  • The revisions have led to protests from Japanese who see the government efforts as an attempt to eliminate Princess Aiko from ruling and justify discrimination against women and a patriarchal system.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • That means workers who have faced discrimination would need to pursue expensive litigation.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2026
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  • Playing for the Dodgers at Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field, Robinson effectively ended more than five decades of segregation in the sport.
    — Riley Jones, Footwear News, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Rosenwald family resources helped provide the facilities that made possible the accomplishments of the Tuskegee airmen, and supported NAACP legal efforts that ultimately overturned school segregation.
    — Harold Pollack, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
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“Jim Crow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Jim%20Crow. Accessed 19 Aug. 2026.

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