How To Use jim crow In A Sentence
- The black slaves freed by the Civil War soon found themselves caught up in an extensive pattern of legally enforced racial discrimination in the South known as Jim Crow.
- To then make it sound as if it weren't "diddly" takes an even more foolish stance because of the huge problems with racism and Jim Crow in this nation after 1865. DNC: Barbour 'defended the indefensible'
- Everywhere in the city the tension is papable, we have always had the sense that the jim crow mentality was beneath the surface but with all the racially devisive inuendo being put out by Mccain/Palin the rippling currents of animosities that haven’t been felt here covertly for a very long time are boilng beneath the surface. Evening Buzz: 18 days to go
- Given the reality of the Jim Crow South, however, majoritarian democracy could hardly have been said to be in play.
- Viewing the evolution of civil rights through the lens of legal history, Tsesis considers laws that have restricted civil rights (such as Jim Crow regulations and prohibitions against intermarriage) and laws that have expanded rights (including antisegregation legislation and other legal advances of the civil rights era). Tsesis on the History of Civil Rights
- I bet Jim Crow is flipping over in hie miserable grave. Sessions to 'withhold...consent' on Sotomayor
- What’s impracticable is simply the idea of getting a law passed such that someone in the position of Helen Aberson and Harold Perl, for example, the writer and illustrator of the children’s book that DUMBO is based on, might take Disney to court for, say, introducing a racist character like Jim Crow or throwing in some right wing anti-union propaganda in the form of evil clowns. Archive 2009-02-01
- Widespread racial prejudice inhibited their opportunities, and institutional discrimination such as black codes and Jim Crow laws denied them full citizenship rights.
- In a country built on slavery, Jim Crow and lynching, as well as one which to this day has a significant statistical difference in economic stability between races (as evidenced by the article at top), white people whining about unfairness is about as gauche as it gets. Think Progress » National Review ‘symposium’ on black unemployment has no black participants.
- I really feel that jim crow is alive and well. charles pettway Heckler Wilson 'a decent guy' with lock on district, observers say
