Jim Crow and Zip Coon: The Animals in Racial Stereotypes
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Jim Crow has become such a familiar term — as in Jim Crow Laws or the Jim Crow South or the Jim Crow Era — that it’s easy to miss the animal — in this case...the crow inside the phrase. How did the crow come to be associated with a repressive system of segregationist laws that hindered and harmed black men and women for decades after the Civil War? What is the story behind this animalogy?  Resources for living compassionately and healthfully at joyfulvegan.com.
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