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.