Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name used as the title of one of the earliest negro-minstrel songs, and taken as typical of the negro race in certain applications.
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- noun a crowbar fitted with a claw for pulling nails
- noun barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites
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May 7th, 2006 at 10:05 am the only possible outcome of the wedding of the party of reconstruction with the party of jim crow is the modern republican establishment, corruption is all they have in common
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and as history advances the “conservatives” have had to give up ideas of slavery after a civil war, jim crow, after almost another, real lasie fair economics after the meltdown of 1929.
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