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color line

[kuhl-er lahyn] / ˈkʌl ər ˌlaɪn /
NOUN
discriminatory barrier separating nonwhite people from white people
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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 episode belongs to a much longer lineage of banned books about race and the color line in the South and other parts of the country.

From Salon May 31, 2026

This is the moment for us to lean into solidarity — to learn from our shared history of struggling for a better society and democracy on both sides of the color line.

From Salon Feb. 1, 2026

When Jackie Robinson entered the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962, his informational plaque didn’t mention that he had broken baseball’s color line.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 10, 2025

For years a white businessman named Ralph Johns had tried to convince A&T students to defy the color line in Greensboro.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson




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