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Crow [noun] [U; not after the] US dated [disapproving] - keeping black people apart from white people in public places, public vehicles and employmentThey moved to Alabama in the 1920s, the era of Jim Crow, and suffered from racist attacks because of the color of their skin.As a child, my grandfather went to a Jim Crow school (= a school for black children only).(US dated disapproving) Jim Crow laws were the laws made in the United States in the late 19th century to keep black people separate from white people.Jim Crow laws were abolished in the 1960s as a result of the civil rights movement.