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Recent Examples of Jim Crow
Liuzzo grew up as a white civil rights activist, witnessing racial injustices while attending segregated schools in the Jim Crow South, shaping her dedication toward fighting for social justice.
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Dana Afana, Freep.com, 29 Oct. 2025
Another friend was an evangelical pastor who grew up in the Jim Crow South believing that Black people were subhuman.
—John Blake, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2025
Most of them were constructed decades after the Civil War, as part of an effort to demonize Reconstruction and its goal of multiracial democracy, and to justify the emerging Jim Crow regime.
—Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
The show, set during the Jim Crow era, traces the roots of the It story through the lens of racial terror and generational trauma — Charlotte is the grandmother of the young boy featured in the 2017 film.
—Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
Black and Indigenous Derry residents are barely tolerated, but the horrors of the Jim Crow South, where the National Guard is beating down protesters, play on television screens in the background.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
Fine Clothes paints a picture of the racist working conditions of Jim Crow America.
—Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
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.
—JSTOR Daily, 16 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
Dana Afana, Freep.com, 29 Oct. 2025
Another friend was an evangelical pastor who grew up in the Jim Crow South believing that Black people were subhuman.
—John Blake, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2025
Most of them were constructed decades after the Civil War, as part of an effort to demonize Reconstruction and its goal of multiracial democracy, and to justify the emerging Jim Crow regime.
—Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
The show, set during the Jim Crow era, traces the roots of the It story through the lens of racial terror and generational trauma — Charlotte is the grandmother of the young boy featured in the 2017 film.
—Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
Black and Indigenous Derry residents are barely tolerated, but the horrors of the Jim Crow South, where the National Guard is beating down protesters, play on television screens in the background.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
Fine Clothes paints a picture of the racist working conditions of Jim Crow America.
—Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
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.
—JSTOR Daily, 16 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Jim Crow
Noun
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But is protecting children with disabilities from discrimination really a partisan cause?—
Eyal Press,
New Yorker,
29 Oct. 2025
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High velocity, nasty breaking stuff, pinpoint location -- Guerrero has hammered them all without discrimination.—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Moore said Wilson passionately advocated for the program over the past decades in Brookfield schools, as segregation can still be prevalent.—
Drake Bentley,
jsonline.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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Never mind white World War Two soldiers’ relationship to segregation within the army itself, and ensuring that Black veterans couldn’t be entitled to the same VA resources, couldn’t move into the same neighborhoods that white veterans moved into.—
Fiction Non Fiction,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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