Jim Crow

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Jim Crow the name of a black character in a 19th-century plantation song, with the refrain ‘Wheel about and turn about and jump Jim Crow’; the name was also used in the stage presentation of a song and dance act first performed by Thomas D. Rice (1808–60). From the mid 20th century, Jim Crow was also used to denote racial discrimination, especially through segregation of black people in the US.
Jim Crow laws laws which formerly ensured the segregation of black people in the US.

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