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Jim Crow  

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  • Jim Crow is the name associated with a system of white supremacy that required racial subordination and exploitation. Essentially, Jim Crow laws divested blacks of their citizenship rights. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Problems; Jim Crow]

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