Jim Crower

English

Etymology

From 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.

Synonyms

• Jim Crowist