colour bar

Though its name sounds like a Marvel movie franchise waiting to happen, the League had a serious objective - eliminating the colour bar.

There was a "shocking" amount of racism at the time, he said, describing how there was discrimination in local pubs that operated a "colour bar", as well as in housing and employment.

His family want an apology for the 1911-1948 colour bar which stopped him fighting for the British title.

He was born as Brazilian sport was still struggling to overcome the colour bar.

At the time, the so-called “colour bar” meant that ethnic minorities could legally be banned from housing, employment and public places.