Webster
Webster ♂ Transferred use of the surname, in origin an occupational name for a weaver, Old English
webbestre (a derivative of
webb ‘web’). The
-estre suffix was originally feminine, but by the Middle English period the gender distinction had been lost. Use as a given name in America no doubt owes something to the politician and orator Daniel Webster (1782–1852) and the lexicographer Noah Webster (1758–1843).
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American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow
Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History; 8/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...through the development of Jim Crow as a codified legal system...riveting analysis of Jim Crow law, practice, and even policy...America rationalized Jim Crow, and Packard's analysis...blacks and how they justified Jim Crow than an analysis of...
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American Nightmare: the History of Jim Crow.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History; 8/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...through the development of Jim Crow as a codified legal system...riveting analysis of Jim Crow law, practice, and even policy...America rationalized Jim Crow, and Packard's analysis...blacks and how they justified Jim Crow than an analysis of...
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The enemies of Jim Crow
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 2/15/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...scuttle segregation laws or simply ignored...challenged the law in court, their...Company reacted to a Jim Crow ordinance by flatly...would not obey the law and were continually...it believed the law to be "against...effect the unjust laws... requiring...the free market, ...
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The Rise and Fall of 'Jim Crow'
Newspaper article from: Sacramento Observer; 9/25/2002; 700+ words
; ...Resolve During Period "I sit in the Jim Crow [railroad] car. But my mind...maintained by White supremacist laws and customs known as "Jim Crow." It was a brutal and oppressive...spirit of community. The term Jim Crow was taken from a White performer...
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The original Jim Crow
Newspaper article from: The Topeka Capital-Journal; 5/16/2004; ; 535 words
; The phrase "Jim Crow" began as a character...used to describe a set of laws and customs that nullified...anthropologist at the Jim Crow Museum of Racist...19th century poked fun at Jim Crow, a slave master, and a law that said blacks couldn...
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A LANDMARK TELEVISION EVENT FOR PBS: THE RISE AND FALL OF JIM CROW
Newspaper article from: The Broward Times; 9/13/2002; 700+ words
; ...1, 2002 On PBS "I sit in the Jim Crow [railroad] car. But my mind...maintained by white supremacist laws and customs known as "Jim Crow." It was a brutal and oppressive...complexities that defined life during the Jim Crow era will be explored in a...
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Oral history preserves voices that shouted down Jim Crow
Newspaper article from: Miami Times; 12/18/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...that shouted down Jim Crow DURHAM, N.C. -- The...called. "Remembering Jim Crow," in which the...injustices of life in the Jim Crow South. The series...the series. The term Jim Crow is shorthand, a...years, was a system of laws and social customs designed...
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The origin of 'Jim Crow'
Newspaper article from: Tri-State Defender; 2/10/1999; 700+ words
; ...profusion of Jim Crow laws that created...away at the Jim Crow Laws. In Guinn v...statute in Oklahoma law denying the right...Louisville, law requiring residential...blow against the Jim Crow system of racial...the end of the Jim Crow ...
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Shirley Q. Liquor and the Long Beach Ten: For Those Who Don't Believe Jim Crow Is Back...
Newspaper article from: The Broward Times; 4/20/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Ladies and gentlemen, Jim Crow, Jr. is "in the house...fullest extent of the law. But the victims in this...pay. As back in the Jim Crow days when white women...culture image and the law is a dangerous combination...for those who thought Jim Crow coul
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Jim Crow Era a Forgotten Period of American History, Duke Professor Says; Consultant on CBS Documentary.
News Wire article from: Ascribe Higher Education News Service; 10/1/2002; 645 words
; ...an award-winning book on the Jim Crow era. That's why a series such as "The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow," a four-part documentary...all Americans to understand the Jim Crow era, when laws and practices segregated public...
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Jim Crow
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Jim Crow Jim Crow was the colloquial term for forms of systematic discrimination employed...expression insinuates the legal components of the color line (e.g., Jim Crow laws), but also encompasses the cultural and symbolic conventions of hierarchical...
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Jim Crow Laws
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
...the Louisiana law, ruling that...state had passed Jim Crow laws. Becoming entrenched...policy of Jim Crow came chiefly...the repeal of Jim Crow laws during the next...the courts of law. At first...dismantle individual Jim Crow laws and ...
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Jim Crow laws
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Jim Crow laws in U.S. history...passage of discriminatory laws that wiped out the gains...II that an assault on Jim Crow in the South began...Herman Sweatt, to the law school, on the grounds...dramatized the movement to end Jim Crow. Southern whites...
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Jim Crow, Nativism, and Racism
Book article from: American Decades
JIM CROW, NATIVISM, AND RACISM Jim Crow Matures By 1900 southern...which upheld the Louisiana law requiring "separate but...declared off limits to blacks. Laws legislating this separation of the races, named Jim Crow laws, relegated blacks...
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Fighting "Jim Crow": The Battle for Racial Equality
Book article from: American Decades
FIGHTING "JIM CROW": THE BATTLE FOR RACIAL EQUALITY Segregation During the 1910s African...lived in southern states, which had adopted what were known as "Jim Crow" laws in the 1890s and 1900s. While many of their white fellow Americans...
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