color line
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When Jackie Robinson entered the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962, his informational plaque didn’t mention that he had broken baseball’s color line.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
No. Jazz comes out of politics of the color line and Black American life and struggle and the human experience.
From Salon • Apr. 19, 2025
Everyone should wear No. 42 jerseys in honor of Robinson, who famously broke baseball’s color line and also fought segregation in the military.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2025
Edsall then focuses on race and America's color line:
From Salon • Feb. 1, 2024
For years a white businessman named Ralph Johns had tried to convince A&T students to defy the color line in Greensboro.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
