jim crow

3 definitions found

jim crow - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Jim Crow \Jim Crow\ n.
     1. A negro; -- said to be so called from a popular negro
        dance song, the refrain of which is "Wheel about and turn
        about and jump Jim Crow," produced in 1835 by Thomas D.
        Rice (1808-1860), a famous negro minstrel; -- considered
        disparaging and offensive. [Offensive slang, U. S.]
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     2. A legally sanctioned system of racial discrimination
        practised in the southern United States until declared
        unconstitutional in 1953 and further restricted by federal
        legislation, by means of which negroes were segregated and
        discriminated against in employment and in many places of
        public accommodation, such as parks, commercial
        establishments, and public transportation.
        [PJC]

jim crow - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Jim Crow
      n 1: barrier preventing blacks from participating in various
           activities with whites [syn: color bar, colour bar,
           color line, colour line, Jim Crow]
      2: a crowbar fitted with a claw for pulling nails

jim crow - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  71 Moby Thesaurus words for "Jim Crow":
     Jim Crow law, alien, anti-Semitism, apartheid, apartness,
     black power, black supremacy, chauvinism, class consciousness,
     class distinction, class hatred, class prejudice, class war,
     color bar, color line, detachment, discrimination, division,
     ethnocentrism, exclusiveness, fascism, foreigner, insularity,
     insulation, isolation, isolationism, know-nothingism,
     male chauvinist, minority prejudice, narrowness, out-group,
     outcast, outsider, parochialism, persona non grata, privacy,
     privatism, privatization, quarantine, race hatred, race prejudice,
     race snobbery, racial discrimination, racial segregation,
     racialism, racism, recess, reclusion, red-baiting, retirement,
     retreat, rustication, seclusion, secrecy, segregation, separation,
     sequestration, sex discrimination, sexism, snobbishness,
     social barrier, social discrimination, splendid isolation,
     stranger, superpatriotism, tightness, ultranationalism,
     white power, white supremacy, withdrawal, xenophobia