jim crow

• ⇰ A negro; -- said to be so called from a popular negro dance song, the refrain of which is Wheel about and turn about and jump Jim Crow, produced in 1835 by <person>Thomas D. Rice</person> (1808-1860), a famous negro minstrel; -- considered d
• ⇰ A legally sanctioned system of racial discrimination practised in the southern United States until declared unconstitutional in 1953 and further restricted by federal legislation, by means of which negroes were segregated and discriminated against in empl