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Recent Examples of Jim Crow
Trimming was a bad option in response to Jim Crow.
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David Brooks, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026
Caddo Parish has long been a center of racial injustice, known from the Reconstruction era through the Jim Crow period as Bloody Caddo for having among the highest numbers of lynchings of any county in the country.
—Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 24 Mar. 2026
Despite the 19th Amendment, Jim Crow laws in the South prevented most Black women and men from casting ballots.
—Courtney Cole, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2026
That was how so many of their forebears settled here, having survived slavery and Jim Crow, working land some of the families own to this day.
—Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2026
Set in Jim Crow Mississippi, the film blends blues folklore and vampire mythology into an immersive story about racial exploitation and cultural survival.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 17 Mar. 2026
Nicholson wrote that the Jim Crow-era murder musical is the best kind of smart filmmaking, a barn-burner about religion and art and race that ditches the speeches for scenes of action and romance.
—Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2026
The early loss of their mothers, Vernice to murder and Annie to abandonment, left the girls in the care of various relatives, growing up during the Jim Crow era.
—Diya Chacko, Oc Register, 11 Mar. 2026
The story of Frederick Douglass’s fight for universal suffrage from the Civil War to the rise of Jim Crow.
—Kyana Moghadam, NPR, 10 Mar. 2026
David Brooks, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026
Caddo Parish has long been a center of racial injustice, known from the Reconstruction era through the Jim Crow period as Bloody Caddo for having among the highest numbers of lynchings of any county in the country.
—Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 24 Mar. 2026
Despite the 19th Amendment, Jim Crow laws in the South prevented most Black women and men from casting ballots.
—Courtney Cole, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2026
That was how so many of their forebears settled here, having survived slavery and Jim Crow, working land some of the families own to this day.
—Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2026
Set in Jim Crow Mississippi, the film blends blues folklore and vampire mythology into an immersive story about racial exploitation and cultural survival.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 17 Mar. 2026
Nicholson wrote that the Jim Crow-era murder musical is the best kind of smart filmmaking, a barn-burner about religion and art and race that ditches the speeches for scenes of action and romance.
—Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2026
The early loss of their mothers, Vernice to murder and Annie to abandonment, left the girls in the care of various relatives, growing up during the Jim Crow era.
—Diya Chacko, Oc Register, 11 Mar. 2026
The story of Frederick Douglass’s fight for universal suffrage from the Civil War to the rise of Jim Crow.
—Kyana Moghadam, NPR, 10 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Jim Crow
Noun
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In the lawsuit, federal authorities allege the company violated the Americans with Disabilities Act — which prohibits discrimination based on disability by public accommodations, including theme parks — when the three Florida parks prohibited rollators.—
Silas Morgan,
The Orlando Sentinel,
26 Mar. 2026
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is calling a penalty on the National Football League (NFL), claiming its policies encouraging teams to hire nonwhite coaches violate Florida's employment laws banning discrimination.—
CBS Miami Team,
CBS News,
26 Mar. 2026
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While no single factor drives the wage gap, occupational segregation accounts for a large part of it.—
Andrea Hsu,
NPR,
26 Mar. 2026
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The prize is named after Atlanta’s 51st mayor, a businessman who argued that Atlanta could not be economically successful under racial segregation.—
AJ Willingham,
AJC.com,
23 Mar. 2026
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