Synonyms for jim crow
jim crow

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1. color bar, colour bar, color line, colour line, Jim Crownoun

   barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites

   Synonyms:
   color bar, colour line, color line, colour bar

2. jim crownoun

   a crowbar fitted with a claw for pulling nails

   Synonyms:
   color bar, colour line, color line, colour bar

Matched Categories

1. • Crowbar
   • Ideological Barrier

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1. Joe Biden:

   This is Jim Crow in the 21st century, it must end. We have a moral and constitutional obligation to act.

2. Barack Obama:

   And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ, in our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ. Michelle and I returned from India — an incredible, beautiful country, full of magnificent diversity — but a place where, in past years, religious faiths of all types have, on occasion, been targeted by other peoples of faith, simply due to their heritage and their beliefs — acts of intolerance that would have shocked Gandhiji, the person who helped to liberate that nation.

3. Nikole Hannah-Jones:

   Reparations for African Americans are based on paying restitution for 250 years of slavery followed by 100 years of racial apartheid, which we often call Jim Crow. So it's really an attempt to address both the moral harm, and the crime that slavery and Jim Crow were, but also the wealth gap that was created by both of these institutions.

4. Raphael Warnock:

   We are witnessing right now a massive and unabashed assault on voting rights unlike anything we've ever seen since the Jim Crow era, jim Crow is Jim Crow in new clothes.

5. Joe Biden:

   Youve got Jim Crow sneaking back in, you know what happens when you have an equal right to vote? They lose.