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Jim Crow
noun- racial segregation; a racially segregated facility US, 1921
- You riding back here in the Jim Crow just like me. — Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, p. 155, 1947
- Bop was so weird, and so apart from any attraction in night club history, that the breaking of the Jim Crow line went unnoticed. — Robert Sylvester, No Cover Charge, p. 284, 1956
- I am not like these pseudo-hip characters who immolate themselves in the Negro race which, if you ask me, really is Jim Crow in reverse. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 60, 1961
- [P]erhaps there are fewer breadlines in America, but is Jim Crow gone? — Students for a Democratic Society, Port Huron Statement, 15 June 1962
- in British Columbia logging, a single log load; in Vancouver Island coal mining, a bar for bending track or changing an underground rail switch CANADA
- In the US, Jim Crow cars were railroad cars for the exclusive use of negroes. In Canada, only BC had timber big enough to make a “Jim Crow” a one-log load on a rail car or logging truck. — Tom Parkin, WetCoast Words, p. 77, 1989
- on the railways, a tool used to straighten rails US, 1952
- — Ramon Adams, The Language of the Railroader, p. 87, 1977
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