Jim Crower

noun

A proponent of Jim Crow laws

Meanings

nounJim Crower (plural Jim Crowers)

plural Jim Crowers

  1. A proponent of Jim Crow laws

    2012, Robert Cottrell, Two Pioneers: How Hank Greenberg and Jackie Robinson Transformed Baseball Landis, by contrast, was “not insulting Adolf Hitler, the master Jim Crower of all time

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    Americans in this year of the grim fight against the biggest Jim Crower of them all— Hitler.

    2001, Larry Lester, Black Baseball's National Showcase

    1995, Christopher De Santis, Langston Hughes and the Chicago defender Nobody likes riots, but when an over-zealous white Jim Crower collides with a too- much Jim Crowed Negro, hysteric sparks might fly capable of lighting dangerous emotional fires.

    Synonyms: Jim Crowist

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA proponent of Jim Crow laws

Origin

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