Jim Crow
/ˈdʒɪm ˈkroʊ/ n [U]Definition
› the US laws and customs that kept black people apart from white people and prevented them from having the opportunities available to white people from the 1800s to the 1960s
(Definition of Jim Crow n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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