How to Use Jim Crow in a Sentence

Jim Crow

noun
  • That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 19 Aug. 2025
  • That's some old Jim Crow playbook.
    — Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The shadow of Jim Crow did not fall all at once.
    — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026
  • Our parents had known Jim Crow on a first-name basis.
    — Rodney Carmichael, NPR, 3 June 2026
  • Do people of color want a return to Jim Crow?
    — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 May 2026
  • Trimming was a bad option in response to Jim Crow.
    — David Brooks, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026
  • My family was driven out of the South by Jim Crow.
    — Mackensy Lunsford, Nashville Tennessean, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Born in Tennessee, but Jim Crow pushed her to Cincinnati.
    — Mackensy Lunsford, Nashville Tennessean, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Now, at the time, segregation was legal under the Jim Crow laws.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The train, like life, continued to roll along the tracks of Jim Crow America.
    — Literary Hub, 11 May 2026
  • Call it the new Jim Crow — a disingenuous way to suppress certain votes all gussied up as safety.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026
  • His Jim Crow traveling kit kept him prepared for anything the Jim Crow car threw at him.
    — Literary Hub, 11 May 2026
  • The vampire thriller is set in the Jim Crow-era Mississippi Delta.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025
  • In states shrouded by Jim Crow laws, Black Americans were advised where and where not to drive.
    — Lee Cowan, CBS News, 28 June 2026
  • Jim Crow was establishing itself.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The club served as a beacon of entrepreneurship and artistic expression during Jim Crow.
    — Miami Herald, 24 Feb. 2026
  • To tackle the Jim Crow era and Black identity through a vampire film is an incredible feat.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 19 Feb. 2026
  • This kind of Jim Crow–style dehumanization is pathetic and a disgrace to the office.
    — Melina Khan, USA Today, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The filmic presentation is indeed impressive for the vampire film set in the Jim Crow South.
    — G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Francois compared the Roberts Court to the 1880s justices who opened the door to Jim Crow.
    — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 27 June 2026
  • Fine Clothes paints a picture of the racist working conditions of Jim Crow America.
    — Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
  • That was how so many of their forebears settled here, having survived slavery and Jim Crow, working land some of the families own to this day.
    — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Hall said the aggressive tactics used by troops and federal agents resembles policing during the Jim Crow era.
    — NPR, 12 Nov. 2025
  • To play characters from the Jim Crow South, Jordan drew a bit from his own family history.
    — Tracy Smith, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2026
  • While a college student, Jackson was a crusader in the fight against Jim Crow segregation laws.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Good Samaritan was brought about during the Jim Crow era where segregation laws were being enforced.
    — Charlotte Observer, 29 May 2026
  • Set over an explosive night in the Jim Crow South, this terrifying period piece plays like a boozy bass riff stretched across genres.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Once the Southern Crescent pulled into the station, all trains bound north were emancipated from Jim Crow laws.
    — Literary Hub, 11 May 2026
  • That history was shaped by oppressive Jim Crow-era social conditions and race relations.
    — Usa Today Network, USA Today, 10 June 2026
  • Jim Crow laws systematically stripped them of those posts, and made America a de facto police state for Black folks.
    — Literary Hub, 18 Feb. 2026

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