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color line
[kuhl-er lahyn]
noun
Also called color bar.social or political restriction or distinction based on differences of skin pigmentation, as between white and Black people.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of color line1
Idioms and Phrases
draw the color line, to observe a color line.
Example Sentences
Working-class Black people crossing the color line were met with mob violence, arson attacks, bombings and burning crosses.
There is economic anxiety on both sides of the color line.
Looking at the white backlash and white frontlash, the rolling back of decades of progress along the color line, I have been asking myself what year is it really?
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.
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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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