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单词 Jim Crow
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Definition of Jim Crow in English:

Jim Crow

noun dʒɪmˈkrəʊˌdʒɪm ˈkroʊ
US
  • 1mass noun The former practice of segregating black people in the US.

    (美国过去对黑人的)种族隔离

    eventually Jim Crow was abolished on interstate carriers
    as modifier Jim Crow laws
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I recall wondering if the Sons of the Confederacy or some such organization might summon up similar chutzpah to package a Jim Crow tour of the Old South.
    • Readers also will learn that black success in a Jim Crow society was necessarily grounded in betrayal of the community.
    • By 1913, just as there was for schools, housing, public transportation, there was a Jim Crow section for black Civil War memory.
    • When this war comes to an end, will you herd me in a Jim Crow car like cattle?
    • Pilgrim is curator of the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Mich.
    • Soon after Jerry disappeared, she shook the red dust of south Georgia from her shoes, gathered her brood about her and climbed aboard a Jim Crow train.
    • They are the type of laws that supported slavery, bringing about the creation of an Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the type of laws that sustained a Jim Crow era of segregation.
    • What Jackson did was an act of protest, not unlike what Rosa Parks committed when she refused to give in to a Jim Crow law.
    1. 1.1offensive count noun A black person.
      〈冒犯〉黑人
  • 2An implement for straightening iron bars or bending rails by screw pressure.

    轨条挠曲器,弯轨机

Derivatives

  • Jim Crowism

  • noun
    US
    • Firmly locked in place throughout the South by 1915, Jim Crowism had two cardinal features.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • We are tired of this city using development as a new wave of Jim Crowism.

Origin

Mid 19th century: the name of a black character in a 19th-century plantation song.

Definition of Jim Crow in US English:

Jim Crow

nounˌdʒɪm ˈkroʊˌjim ˈkrō
US
  • 1The former practice of segregating black people in the US.

    (美国过去对黑人的)种族隔离

    as modifier Jim Crow laws
    Example sentencesExamples
    • They are the type of laws that supported slavery, bringing about the creation of an Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the type of laws that sustained a Jim Crow era of segregation.
    • I recall wondering if the Sons of the Confederacy or some such organization might summon up similar chutzpah to package a Jim Crow tour of the Old South.
    • When this war comes to an end, will you herd me in a Jim Crow car like cattle?
    • Soon after Jerry disappeared, she shook the red dust of south Georgia from her shoes, gathered her brood about her and climbed aboard a Jim Crow train.
    • Pilgrim is curator of the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Mich.
    • Readers also will learn that black success in a Jim Crow society was necessarily grounded in betrayal of the community.
    • What Jackson did was an act of protest, not unlike what Rosa Parks committed when she refused to give in to a Jim Crow law.
    • By 1913, just as there was for schools, housing, public transportation, there was a Jim Crow section for black Civil War memory.
    1. 1.1offensive A black person.
      〈冒犯〉黑人
  • 2An implement for straightening steel bars or bending rails by screw pressure.

    轨条挠曲器,弯轨机

Origin

Mid 19th century: the name of a black character in a 19th-century plantation song.

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