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Recent Examples of Jim Crow
Take Bata Kindai Amgoza ibn LoBagola, who pretended to be this African native descended from the Lost Tribe of Israel but was actually born in Baltimore in the Jim Crow South.
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JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025
The vampire thriller is set in the Jim Crow-era Mississippi Delta.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025
At the time, historians and legal experts worried the law could usher in a new era of racial injustice similar to Jim Crow that would be enforced by the police and courts.
—Amy Yurkanin, ProPublica, 9 Oct. 2025
And then in , the Court, again in a 5-4 decision, invalidated section 5 of the Voting Rights Act and unleashed a flood of electoral manipulation across the former Jim Crow South.
—David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
Born JoAnne Deborah Byron in 1947 to an accountant father and schoolteacher mother, Shakur spent her childhood between Queens, New York, and her grandparents’ home in North Carolina, then still under Jim Crow laws.
—Walden Green, Pitchfork, 29 Sep. 2025
Long after John Quincy Adams passed away in 1848 (collapsing of a stroke while working at his desk in the Capitol), newer versions emerged—as Jim Crow laws, after the failure of Reconstruction in the 1870s, and later as the filibuster during the civil rights movement of the mid-20th century.
—Time, 24 Sep. 2025
In a match that was, in a sense, a referendum on Frazier’s Blackness, the arm that had been permanently marked by Jim Crow had forced a judgment.
—Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
That opens the door for opponents of the bill to collect enough signatures within 90 days of its passage to force a statewide vote on the new map, which would divide Kansas City along Troost Avenue, the city’s de facto racial divide created by Jim Crow-era housing policies.
—Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025
The vampire thriller is set in the Jim Crow-era Mississippi Delta.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025
At the time, historians and legal experts worried the law could usher in a new era of racial injustice similar to Jim Crow that would be enforced by the police and courts.
—Amy Yurkanin, ProPublica, 9 Oct. 2025
And then in , the Court, again in a 5-4 decision, invalidated section 5 of the Voting Rights Act and unleashed a flood of electoral manipulation across the former Jim Crow South.
—David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
Born JoAnne Deborah Byron in 1947 to an accountant father and schoolteacher mother, Shakur spent her childhood between Queens, New York, and her grandparents’ home in North Carolina, then still under Jim Crow laws.
—Walden Green, Pitchfork, 29 Sep. 2025
Long after John Quincy Adams passed away in 1848 (collapsing of a stroke while working at his desk in the Capitol), newer versions emerged—as Jim Crow laws, after the failure of Reconstruction in the 1870s, and later as the filibuster during the civil rights movement of the mid-20th century.
—Time, 24 Sep. 2025
In a match that was, in a sense, a referendum on Frazier’s Blackness, the arm that had been permanently marked by Jim Crow had forced a judgment.
—Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
That opens the door for opponents of the bill to collect enough signatures within 90 days of its passage to force a statewide vote on the new map, which would divide Kansas City along Troost Avenue, the city’s de facto racial divide created by Jim Crow-era housing policies.
—Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Jim Crow
Noun
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Alleged harassment, discrimination became detrimental The harassment only continued into 2024, the suit said.—
Laura Bauer,
Kansas City Star,
9 Oct. 2025
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McMahon has gutted the Education Department’s civil rights division, where lawyers and other federal employees work to ensure all students can access public school, free from discrimination.—
Megan O’Matz,
ProPublica,
8 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Battling secession, segregation and riots.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
12 Oct. 2025
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After the Norway spruce absorbs soluble gold from the soil via its roots, the resident endophytic bacteria within the tree’s tissues take action, initiating the segregation and solidification of the gold.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Oct. 2025
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