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1. This way, he avoided the grasp of Jim Crow laws, and commanded respect for his band and music.

2. This was an era of lynchings, Jim Crow, and economic depression.

3. Southern Democrats filibustered to keep the segregationist Jim Crow laws alive.

4. As in Jim Crow, the series of laws that mandated segregation for blacks prior to the civil rights movement.

5. The result was more than six decades of the institutionalized discrimination against African-Americans known as "Jim Crow."

6. But Jim Crow was so accepted in the land that when Benny Goodman, during the 1930s, brought Teddy Wilson, and then Lionel Hampton, into his trio and quartets, it was briefly big national news.

7. To me, with my vast ignorance, my Jim Crow station in life, it seemed a task impossible of achievement.

8. The phrase "Jim Crow" was drawn from a stock character in "minstrel" (vaudeville) shows of the time, in which a white singer and actor would put on black makeup to look like a black man.

9. The Jim Crow laws segregated national baseball during this decade and Negro baseball teams remained until the early 60s..

10. In all ways, it's worse than the Jim Crow laws were in the American South because it's completely sanctioned by religion.

11. As Wynes had documented(sentencedict.com), Drew had suffered greatly from Jim Crow during much of his highly meritorious life.

12. A special presentation of the film From Swastika to Jim Crow begins at 7 p.m.

13. Widespread racial prejudice inhibited their opportunities, and institutional discrimination such as black codes and Jim Crow laws denied them full citizenship rights.

14. My father grew up in the segregated south, in Charleston, under Jim Crow laws that didn't allow blacks to vote.

15. Later, Duke told me how, when he was touring the deep South from 1934 to 1936, he sidelined Jim Crow.

16. It took a brutal civil war to end slavery and federal troops to topple Jim Crow.

17. Slavery was abolished at the price of a great national trauma(sentence dictionary), only to be replaced by a system of segregation called Jim Crow.

18. Think of the civil-rights heroes and foot soldiers who marched, protested and risked their lives to bring about the end to segregation and Jim Crow.

19. 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.

20. The lyrics, which he penned as well, offer some of the most blatant and harshest critiques of Jim Crow attitudes in all of jazz activism.

21. The black slaves freed by the Civil War soon found themselves caught up in an extensive pattern of legally enforced racial discrimination in the South known as Jim Crow.