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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