Jim Crower

noun

Jim Crower

noun

Etymology From Jim Crow + -er.

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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
  • 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:
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  • 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

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