color line
Also called col·or bar [kuhl-er bahr] /ˈkʌl ər ˌbɑr/ . social or political restriction or distinction based on differences of skin pigmentation, as between white and Black people.
Idioms about color line
draw the color line, to observe a color line.
Origin of color line
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How to use color line in a sentence
Who did and didn’t have air-conditioning often fell starkly along the color line, too, especially in the South.
AC Feels Great, But It’s Terrible for the Planet. Here’s How to Fix That | Eric Dean Wilson | June 30, 2021 | TimePrivate establishments held a firm color line, as did public transit.
COVID-19 Isn't the First Pandemic to Affect Minority Populations Differently. Here's What We Can Learn From the 1918 Flu | Emily Barone | August 7, 2020 | TimeInstead, the outrage and anger was defined by the color line.
W.E.B. DuBois once prophesized that the 20th century would be about the color line.
George Zimmerman, Hispanics, and the Messy Nature of American Identity | Ilan Stavans | April 6, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIt would serve us all well to know how porously open we all are to models of behavior far beyond the color line.
Wherever the discussion began it promptly shaded off toward the color-line and insult.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete | Albert Bigelow PaineAcross the color line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls.
This amendment wiped out the color-line in politics so far as any written law could possibly do it.
They were not at all sure that the color-line could be peacefully drawn.
And yet no color line has excluded, no reservation boundary separated, this people from their fellow countrymen.
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