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color line

[kuhl-er lahyn]

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noun

Also called color bar.��social or political restriction or distinction based on differences of skin pigmentation, as between white and Black people.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of color line¹

An Americanism dating back to 1860–65

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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

draw the color line, to observe a color line.

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There is economic anxiety on both sides of the color line.

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Looking at the white backlash and white frontlash, the rolling back of decades of progress along the color line, I have been asking myself what year is it really?

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No. Jazz comes out of politics of the color line and Black American life and struggle and the human experience.

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Georgia has also passed a law banning the teaching of “divisive concepts,” i.e., the truth and facts about racism and the color line and its enduring role in American society.

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Everyone should wear No. 42 jerseys in honor of Robinson, who famously broke baseball’s color line and also fought segregation in the military.

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