color line
Example Sentences
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Robinson broke baseball’s color line and led the Brooklyn Dodgers to the World Series.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Robinson broke baseball’s color line on April 15, 1947, when he took the field in a game at Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
The color line, slavery and the long Black Freedom Struggle are not peripheral to the American story; they are central to it.
From Salon ● May 14, 2026
No. Jazz comes out of politics of the color line and Black American life and struggle and the human experience.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2025
They would no sooner question the color line than they would the concept of heaven and hell or the fact that man must earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
