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Recent Examples of Jim Crow
Set in Jim Crow Mississippi, the film blends blues folklore and vampire mythology into an immersive story about racial exploitation and cultural survival.
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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
Kin starts in a small town in Jim Crow–era Louisiana, where its two protagonists, Annie and Vernice, are growing up without a mother.
—Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 13 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
The March 7, 1965, violence that became known as Bloody Sunday shocked the nation and helped spur passage of the landmark legislation that dismantled barriers to voting for Black Americans in the Jim Crow South.
—ABC News, 8 Mar. 2026
In the Jim Crow South of the 1940s and 50s, Austin’s Black citizens were relegated east of Interstate 35.
—Cedric Golden, Austin American Statesman, 5 Mar. 2026
Jim Crow was establishing itself.
—Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
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
Kin starts in a small town in Jim Crow–era Louisiana, where its two protagonists, Annie and Vernice, are growing up without a mother.
—Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 13 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
The March 7, 1965, violence that became known as Bloody Sunday shocked the nation and helped spur passage of the landmark legislation that dismantled barriers to voting for Black Americans in the Jim Crow South.
—ABC News, 8 Mar. 2026
In the Jim Crow South of the 1940s and 50s, Austin’s Black citizens were relegated east of Interstate 35.
—Cedric Golden, Austin American Statesman, 5 Mar. 2026
Jim Crow was establishing itself.
—Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Jim Crow
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The new Washington law restricts facial coverings for all federal, state and local law enforcement officers -- a key distinction intended to avoid claims of discrimination against federal officials.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
20 Mar. 2026
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Cancelling grants and funding on the basis of DEI constitutes discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, and other qualities, the organizations claimed.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
19 Mar. 2026
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Overtown’s history of hosting musicians like Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald during segregation captivated Samuelsson.—
Michael Butler,
Miami Herald,
20 Mar. 2026
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Chavez seemed like the right man at the right moment as Mexican Americans rose up like never before to battle discrimination and segregation.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Mar. 2026
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