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Jim-crow   Listen
noun
Jim-crow  n.  (Mach.)
1.
A machine for bending or straightening rails.
2.
A planing machine with a reversing tool, to plane both ways.






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"Jim-crow" Quotes from Famous Books



... Wheeling, Huntington and Charleston proved a decisive factor in defeating the amendment. Another element working toward the suffrage defeat was the use made by the opposition of the negro question. They told the negroes that the white women would take the vote away from them and also establish a "Jim-Crow" system and they told the white women that the negro women outnumbered them and would get the balance of power. There is a large colored vote in the State. A really big campaign was conducted and while the size of the opposition vote was appalling, one must ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI • Various



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