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Synonyms for color line


Grammar : Noun



Définition of color line

  • noun discriminatory barrier separating nonwhite people from white people
Example sentences :
  • At noon an effort was made to get up a demonstration on the color line in his behalf.
  • Extract from : « The Citizen-Soldier » by John Beatty
  • The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
  • Extract from : « The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue » by Various
  • No color line is drawn, and Asiatics are seen at every turn.
  • Extract from : « Seven Legs Across the Seas » by Samuel Murray
  • Exceptions occur, but she does not often draw the color line.
  • Extract from : « Half a Man » by Mary White Ovington
  • Far from being an advantage to both races the color line is the curse of both.
  • Extract from : « Your Negro Neighbor » by Benjamin Brawley
  • He said he was very much opposed to the color line in politics.
  • Extract from : « The Facts of Reconstruction » by John R. Lynch
  • "You're strong on that color line, Ephraim," the boy remarked.
  • Extract from : « The Boy With the U.S. Census » by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
  • There the regiments met the enemy, and fought till overpowered, when we fell back to our color line and re-formed.
  • Extract from : « Campfire and Battlefield » by Rossiter Johnson
  • Then they are going to fight, and the War of the Color Line will outdo in savage inhumanity any war this world has yet seen.
  • Extract from : « The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy » by Theodore Lothrop Stoddard
  • The Indian draws no “color line,” and continually impairs the purity of his blood and the poise of his heredity.
  • Extract from : « The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy » by Theodore Lothrop Stoddard

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