VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Jim Crow

Meaning:

The system of racial segregation in the American South prior to the American civil rights movement.

Examples:

  • They were defecting a caste system known as Jim Crow.
  • Ninety-five years later, we got a new Jim Crow.
  • This is a system with the new Jim Crow, it's no different.
  • It is no better than Jim Crow.
  • This was the nightmare of Jim Crow America.
  • And we want an end to the new Jim Crow of mass incarceration.
  • It is like the Jim Crow South in the United States.
  • Ms. Moore grew up in the Jim Crow South.
  • Or take the example of Jim Crow segregation in the South.
  • It's 2013—more than 50 years since the end of Jim Crow.