Jim Crow

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But his analysis is undermined by his alarmist hyperbole and his tendency to cast nearly all of his political antagonists as authoritarian villains bent on thrusting America back to the days of Jim Crow.

From The Wall Street Journal

Yet the collapse of Reconstruction in 1877 and the rise of Jim Crow left him embittered, mourning the rollback of hard-won rights.

From The Wall Street Journal

Both of Mr. Smith’s parents fled the Jim Crow South, met in Washington and imbued their son with ambition, purpose and tenacity.

From The Wall Street Journal

They set out to create twisted public sculptures in enduring bronze that would fabricate a “noble” legacy to reinforce the modern white supremacy of Jim Crow’s racial segregation.

From Los Angeles Times

The Court held that the formula was an anachronism from the Jim Crow era and didn’t account for racial progress.

From The Wall Street Journal