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color line

NOUN
  1. barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites

How To Use color line In A Sentence

  • And in 1930 a director of the West Side Community Center remarked that the two largest unassimilated immigrant groups were the most willing to cross the American color line: the Jew and the Italian seem to be the only people who will live in the same house with the Negroes. A Renegade History of the United States
  • Tuesday marks year number 50 since Jackie Robinson broke the color line in major league baseball.
  • White policing of the color line in the South and “latent” racism in the non-South contributed to a drastic overall decline in… the out-marriage ratio between 1880 and 1930. Don’t Bring Home a White Boy
  • The men stiffened up to the color line, charged forward with a cheer, and drove back the enemy.
  • No critique of American culture and manhood is complete without a discussion of athletics and the color line that long pervaded American sports.
  • Tuesday marks year number 50 since Jackie Robinson broke the color line in major league baseball.
  • Wright anatomizes all Dixon's premises when Bigger crosses the color line and enters the Daltons' white house.
  • Two pawns of the same color lined up on a file as the result of a capture.
  • Guy Lombardo, one of the white bandleaders who helped popularize jazz on Fifty-second Street, recalled that for many years “nightclub owners simply refused to break the color line, fearing financial consequences.” A Renegade History of the United States
  • As men and women, we can never do too much to assert our common humanity across color lines.
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