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color line
[ kuhl-er lahyn ]
noun
- Also called col·or bar [kuhl, -er bahr]. social or political restriction or distinction based on differences of skin pigmentation, as between white and Black people.
Word History and Origins
Origin of color line1
Idioms and Phrases
- draw the color line, to observe a color line.
Example Sentences
No. Jazz comes out of politics of the color line and Black American life and struggle and the human experience.
Georgia has also passed a law banning the teaching of “divisive concepts,” i.e., the truth and facts about racism and the color line and its enduring role in American society.
Everyone should wear No. 42 jerseys in honor of Robinson, who famously broke baseball’s color line and also fought segregation in the military.
Part of this real security also means nurturing and protecting pluralism and multiracial democracy so that the American Dream is real on both sides of the color line, which makes America stronger and more prosperous.
The color line runs straight through every aspect of American society.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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