Jim Crow

The good news is that we already are. A few years ago, Michelle Alexander wrote "The New Jim Crow," which got Americans to see incarceration as a civil rights issue of historic proportions in a way they had not seen it before.

好消息是，我们已经在努力之中几年前，米歇尔亚历山大撰写了《The New Jim Crow》这本书这本书让美国人认识到服刑率在历史上也是一个重要的人权问题，而且是前所未见的

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southern democrats filibustered to keep the segregationist jim crow laws alive.

南部地区的民主党人阻止了分裂主义的克劳法继续生效。

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my father grew up in the segregated south, in charleston, under jim crow laws that didn't allow blacks to vote.

我的父亲成长于种族隔离情绪严重的南部城市查尔斯顿，在那里，黑人隔离法（JimCrowlaws）禁止黑人参与投票。

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but there is no rule of law in the jim crow south.

但是在南方的黑人中没有法律。

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it took a brutal civil war to end slavery and federal troops to topple jim crow.

这个国家发动残酷的内战终结了农奴制，动用联邦军队摧毁种族隔离制度。

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To me, with my vast ignorance, my Jim Crow station in life, it seemed a task impossible of achievement.

对于我，带着巨大的无知，以及所处的受歧视的处境，它显得是一个不可能实现的任务。

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I knew about jim-crow but I had never experienced it.

我知道什么是种族歧视,但从未亲身体验过.

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later, duke told me how, when he was touring the deep south from 1934 to 1936, he sidelined jim crow.

后来，公爵告诉我当他在1934年至1936年南方旅行时怎样避开了吉姆克劳法。

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Think of the civil rights heroes and foot soldiers who marched, protested, and risked their lives to bring about the end of segregation and Jim Crow.

想想那些为争取公民权而行军、抗议的英雄和步兵们，他们冒着生命危险才使种族隔离和对黑人的歧视得以终结。

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"every american who doesn't want to see an apartheid jim crow society return will come to our side, " he predicts.

他预测，“任何不希望倒退到种族歧视年代的人，将和我们站在一起。”

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this way, he avoided the grasp of jim crow laws, and commanded respect for his band and music.

这样一来，他们便可以避开种族隔离法律，为自己的乐队成员和音乐保留尊严。

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the strange career of jim crow

吉姆？克劳的奇异生平

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for some black women, a white husband brings bad memories of slavery and jim crow.

对于一些黑人女性来说，白人丈夫会带给她们关于奴隶和吉姆•克劳（对黑人的贬称）称号的痛苦回忆。

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