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kro
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(informal, sometimes l.c.) the set of laws and practices in the U.S., particularly in evidence in the South, that enforced or sanctioned segregation of and discrimination against black Americans during the period between the late 1870s and the 1960s.
Marriage between whites and blacks was illegal under Jim Crow. |
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Jim Crowism (n.) |
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