Examples of nadir in the following topics:
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- The nadir of race relations in the United States was an
ideological era of nationwide hostility directed from white Americans against African Americans.
- Historians still debate the exact point in time at which the so-called nadir took place, but a
commonly cited period spans the late 1880s to just after World War I, when lynchings—extra-judicial killings of black people—were common.
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- The "nadir of American race relations" is a term that refers to the period in United States history from the end of Reconstruction through the early 20th century, when racism in the country is deemed to have been worse than in any other period after the American Civil War.
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- Before the rise of Islam, there were three main Jewish tribes in the city of Medina: the Banu Nadir, the Banu Qainuqa, and the Banu Qurayza.
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- The "nadir of American race relations" is a phrase that refers to the period in U.S. history from the end of Reconstruction through the early twentieth century, when racism in the country is deemed to have been worse than in any other period after the American Civil War.