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Recent Examples of Jim Crow
Over time, through Jim Crow, segregation, and disinheritance, Black families were not allowed to access the property anymore.
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Jeffrey Bennett, Time, 5 Jan. 2026
During Jim Crow, its grounds offered a haven for the city’s Black population during a time when African Americans were banned from other waterfront parks in the state.
—Essence, 5 Jan. 2026
To play characters from the Jim Crow South, Jordan drew a bit from his own family history.
—Tracy Smith, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2026
The archaeologist Jim Crow has suggested that this was one of the first times in British history that land had ever been purchased for the sole purpose of archaeological conservation.
—Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
Visitors begin in the History Galleries, which start with the transatlantic slave trade and move through Emancipation, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights era.
—Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 27 Dec. 2025
In a dark American era plagued by Jim Crow and rampant poverty, the plays of the FTP tended to engage frankly with some of the grimmer American truths.
—Talya Zax, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2025
Set over an explosive night in the Jim Crow South, this terrifying period piece plays like a boozy bass riff stretched across genres.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 19 Dec. 2025
In Sinners, Lindo plays Delta Slim, an accomplished Blues musician, who falls down on his luck and into a drinking habit, due to the oppressive discriminations of the American Jim Crow South.
—Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 18 Dec. 2025
Jeffrey Bennett, Time, 5 Jan. 2026
During Jim Crow, its grounds offered a haven for the city’s Black population during a time when African Americans were banned from other waterfront parks in the state.
—Essence, 5 Jan. 2026
To play characters from the Jim Crow South, Jordan drew a bit from his own family history.
—Tracy Smith, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2026
The archaeologist Jim Crow has suggested that this was one of the first times in British history that land had ever been purchased for the sole purpose of archaeological conservation.
—Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
Visitors begin in the History Galleries, which start with the transatlantic slave trade and move through Emancipation, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights era.
—Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 27 Dec. 2025
In a dark American era plagued by Jim Crow and rampant poverty, the plays of the FTP tended to engage frankly with some of the grimmer American truths.
—Talya Zax, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2025
Set over an explosive night in the Jim Crow South, this terrifying period piece plays like a boozy bass riff stretched across genres.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 19 Dec. 2025
In Sinners, Lindo plays Delta Slim, an accomplished Blues musician, who falls down on his luck and into a drinking habit, due to the oppressive discriminations of the American Jim Crow South.
—Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 18 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Jim Crow
Noun
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However, at the California Civil Rights Department, just one attorney and three investigators are charged with enforcing laws that prohibit discrimination against tenants who use government housing subsidies.—
Robin Urevich,
USA Today,
15 Jan. 2026
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Tesla's Austin site has also faced complaints over disability discrimination and labor violations.—
Andrea Guzmán,
Austin American Statesman,
15 Jan. 2026
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On that date, a bus driver called police to complain that two Black girls were sitting near two White girls in violation of segregation laws, according to the Associated Press.—
Adam Carlson,
PEOPLE,
14 Jan. 2026
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The challengers compared Hawaii’s law, which was enacted a year later, to states that resisted the Supreme Court’s 1954 landmark decision outlawing racial segregation in schools.—
Zach Schonfeld,
The Hill,
11 Jan. 2026
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