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color bar

NOUN
discriminatory barrier separating nonwhite people from white people
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That’s the name for the test images — typically of a white woman and a color bar — used since the 1920s for film processing calibrations.

From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2021

The pattern was then drawn in pencil on canvas stretched over board and, finally, each color bar painted by hand.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2016

Each image is photographed next to a color bar with different hues numbered and therefore measurable.

From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2014

What other thought does the man who shattered baseball’s color bar need to leave us with?

From Washington Times • Jun. 25, 2014

That first morning at the firm, a pleasant young white secretary, Miss Lieberman, took me aside and said, “Nelson, we have no color bar here at the law firm.”

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela




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