Jim Crow

noun

1. （美国社会过去对黑人的）种族歧视，种族隔离
   the former practice in the US of using laws that allowed black people to be treated unfairly and kept separate from white people, for example in schools

1. He was almost killed on that day down in Selma, and he led, at the side of Martin Luther King and others, to break the back of Jim Crow in this country.
   他那天在塞尔玛市差点遭到杀害，他和马丁路德金以及其他人一起，带头打破了美国的种族隔离。
2. Slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ, he added.
   他继续说：人们也是以基督的名义为奴隶制和（歧视）黑人进行辩护的。
3. To me, with my vast ignorance, my Jim Crow station in life, it seemed a task impossible of achievement.
   对于我，带着巨大的无知，以及所处的受歧视的处境，它显得是一个不可能实现的任务。
4. Think of the civil rights heroes and foot soldiers who marched, protested, and risked their lives to bring about the end of segregation and Jim Crow.
   想想那些为争取公民权而行军、抗议的英雄和步兵们，他们冒着生命危险才使种族隔离和对黑人的歧视得以终结。
5. There's a Jim Crow car.
   有一节是黑人车厢。
6. But there is no rule of law in the Jim Crow South, not when Negroes are denied housing, turned away from schools, hospitals, and not when we are lynched.
   当黑人没有房子可住的时候，当黑人被学校和医院拒收的时候，当我们被私刑处死的时候，都根本没有法律。
7. As a child, my grandfather went to a Jim Crow school.
   我爷爷小时候在一所黑人学校上学。
8. Bigger inevitably becomes a victim and loser of the Jim Crow society.
   比格必然地成为了那个种族主义社会的牺牲品和失败者。

noun

1. a crowbar fitted with a claw for pulling nails