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Jim crow

noun

Barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites. Synonyms: color bar, color line, colour bar, colour line.

A crowbar fitted with a claw for pulling nails.

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"Jim crow" Quotes from Famous Books

... Jim Crow, like all his race who worked for the government, never spoke his own language except when necessary. But he still retained his inclination to signs. Now he made a movement suggestive of three rises of land, and finished up ...

— The Watchers of the Plains - A Tale of the Western Prairies • Ridgewell Cullum

... jes to-day, yer know, he axed me, was I comin' h'yer ter dis yer meetin', an' when I 'llowed I was, he jes' got up an' rar'd. Yah, yah! how he did make de turf fly, all by hissef, kase I wur a whistlin' 'Ole Jim Crow' an' some other nice psalm-tunes, jes' ter keep myself from larfin' in his face! Till finally he sez, sez he, 'Berry Lawson, ef yer goes ter dat er Radikil meetin', yer needn't never come back ter my plantation no mo'. Yer can't stay h'yer no longer—' ...

— Bricks Without Straw • Albion W. Tourgee

... songs sprang up in due succession afterwards, but none of them, with the exception of one, entitled "All round my Hat," enjoyed any extraordinary share of favour, until an American actor introduced a vile song called "Jim Crow." The singer sang his verses in appropriate costume, with grotesque gesticulations, and a sudden whirl of his body at the close of each verse. It took the taste of the town immediately, and for months the ears of orderly people were stunned ...

— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Vol. I • Charles Mackay

Words linked to "Jim crow" : color bar, pry bar, wrecking bar, ideological barrier, crowbar, color line, colour bar, pry