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Jim-crow   Listen
noun
Jim-crow  n.  (Mach.)
1.
A machine for bending or straightening rails.
2.
A planing machine with a reversing tool, to plane both ways.





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"Jim-crow" Quotes from Famous Books



... meaning of the Southern movement for segregating the races, of its jim-crow car laws and waiting-rooms. This is the meaning of the Negro's exclusion from dining-cars and from restaurants along the line of Southern railroads. He pays the same fare as the white passenger but he is given inferior accommodations and in ...
— The Ultimate Criminal - The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 17 • Archibald H. Grimke


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