Jim Crow

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Noun
  • But the board stated that there was no discrimination, since he was treated the same as other participants in the Sarno trial.
    Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2025
  • The University of California has agreed to a sweeping settlement in a high-profile lawsuit that accused UCLA, one of 10 campuses in the UC system, of enabling antisemitic discrimination during campus protests in 2024.
    Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Roy’s Taxi Entrepreneurial opportunities for providing private transportation services in Austin have been shaped largely by segregation, regulation and innovation.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 29 July 2025
  • The problems to surmount were structural: deindustrialization, entrenched segregation, economic marginalization—conditions shaped by Jim Crow, but not undone by its eclipse.
    Idrees Kahloon, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
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“Jim Crow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Jim%20Crow. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.

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