Jim Crower

English

Etymology

Jim Crow +‎ -er

Noun

Jim Crower (plural Jim Crowers)

  1. 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
    • 2001, Larry Lester, Black Baseball's National Showcase:
      Americans in this year of the grim fight against the biggest Jim Crower of them all— Hitler.
    • 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.

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