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Bob Dylan's, "The Death of Emmett Till"
Misheard Lyrics:
While Emmett's body floats the foam
Of a gentle southern sea.
Of a gentle southern sea.
Original Lyrics:
While Emmett's body floats the foam
Of a Jim Crow southern sea.
Of a Jim Crow southern sea.
Jim Crow is not a term in wide usage now adj. 1. Upholding or practicing discrimination against and segregation of Black people: Jim Crow laws; a Jim Crow town. 2. Reserved or set aside for a racial or ethnic group that is to be discriminated against: "I told them I wouldn't take a Jim Crow job”-Ralph Bunche.
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