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Jim Crow
adjective- racially segregated, reserved for black people US, 1842
- “[T]o hell with you and this lousy Jim Crow union too!” I said. — Chester Himes, If He Hollers Let Him Go, p. 114, 1945
- And it was in Pontiac that I dug that Jim Crow man in person, a motherferyer that would cut your throat for looking. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 4, 1946
- — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, 1951
- The District has a single Jim Crow law, segregating Negros and whites–in schools. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 35, 1951
- He laughs at me and says it was Jim Crow and it’s a Jim Crow world, and what’s the use. — James T. Farrell, Kilroy was Here, p. 67, 1954
- The chapel was Jim Crow; white girls pray in front, black girls in back. — Billie Holiday with William Dufty, Lady Sings the Blues, p. 131, 1956
- The accommodations are block blooked, with a no Jim Crow clause. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 60, 1961
- I been light enough to sit in the front of a Jim Crow bus but dark enough to be worried about it. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 19, 1975
- worthless CANADA
- “Bad medicine,” “chaffy,” “snide,” “jim-crow,” and “pizen” are applied to anything worthless on the Eastern slope of the Rockies. — Alberta Historical Review, p. 14/2, Autumn 1962
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