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Recent Examples of Jim Crow
Black and Indigenous Derry residents are barely tolerated, but the horrors of the Jim Crow South, where the National Guard is beating down protesters, play on television screens in the background.
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Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
Fine Clothes paints a picture of the racist working conditions of Jim Crow America.
—Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
Take Bata Kindai Amgoza ibn LoBagola, who pretended to be this African native descended from the Lost Tribe of Israel but was actually born in Baltimore in the Jim Crow South.
—JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025
At the time, historians and legal experts worried the law could usher in a new era of racial injustice similar to Jim Crow that would be enforced by the police and courts.
—Amy Yurkanin, ProPublica, 9 Oct. 2025
And then in , the Court, again in a 5-4 decision, invalidated section 5 of the Voting Rights Act and unleashed a flood of electoral manipulation across the former Jim Crow South.
—David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
Born JoAnne Deborah Byron in 1947 to an accountant father and schoolteacher mother, Shakur spent her childhood between Queens, New York, and her grandparents’ home in North Carolina, then still under Jim Crow laws.
—Walden Green, Pitchfork, 29 Sep. 2025
Long after John Quincy Adams passed away in 1848 (collapsing of a stroke while working at his desk in the Capitol), newer versions emerged—as Jim Crow laws, after the failure of Reconstruction in the 1870s, and later as the filibuster during the civil rights movement of the mid-20th century.
—Time, 24 Sep. 2025
In a match that was, in a sense, a referendum on Frazier’s Blackness, the arm that had been permanently marked by Jim Crow had forced a judgment.
—Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
Fine Clothes paints a picture of the racist working conditions of Jim Crow America.
—Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
Take Bata Kindai Amgoza ibn LoBagola, who pretended to be this African native descended from the Lost Tribe of Israel but was actually born in Baltimore in the Jim Crow South.
—JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025
At the time, historians and legal experts worried the law could usher in a new era of racial injustice similar to Jim Crow that would be enforced by the police and courts.
—Amy Yurkanin, ProPublica, 9 Oct. 2025
And then in , the Court, again in a 5-4 decision, invalidated section 5 of the Voting Rights Act and unleashed a flood of electoral manipulation across the former Jim Crow South.
—David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
Born JoAnne Deborah Byron in 1947 to an accountant father and schoolteacher mother, Shakur spent her childhood between Queens, New York, and her grandparents’ home in North Carolina, then still under Jim Crow laws.
—Walden Green, Pitchfork, 29 Sep. 2025
Long after John Quincy Adams passed away in 1848 (collapsing of a stroke while working at his desk in the Capitol), newer versions emerged—as Jim Crow laws, after the failure of Reconstruction in the 1870s, and later as the filibuster during the civil rights movement of the mid-20th century.
—Time, 24 Sep. 2025
In a match that was, in a sense, a referendum on Frazier’s Blackness, the arm that had been permanently marked by Jim Crow had forced a judgment.
—Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Jim Crow
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The Minnesota Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Wednesday that USA Powerlifting’s disqualification of a transgender athlete in its women’s sports division constitutes discrimination.—
David Zimmermann,
The Washington Examiner,
23 Oct. 2025
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That could suggest discrimination and warrant an investigation, Hitchcock Cross said.—
Tamia Fowlkes,
jsonline.com,
23 Oct. 2025
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Moore said Wilson passionately advocated for the program over the past decades in Brookfield schools, as segregation can still be prevalent.—
Drake Bentley,
jsonline.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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Never mind white World War Two soldiers’ relationship to segregation within the army itself, and ensuring that Black veterans couldn’t be entitled to the same VA resources, couldn’t move into the same neighborhoods that white veterans moved into.—
Fiction Non Fiction,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Jim Crow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Jim%20Crow. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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