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

Professional wrestling was a kind of civil religion in that working-class community, uniting us on both sides of the color line.

From Salon • Jul. 27, 2025

In late 2014 I was hired to play friend #3 in a new commercial for Garnier Nutrisse, the at-home hair color line.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2023

Moses Fleetwood Walker became a catcher for the Toledo Blue Stockings in 1884, before organized baseball was segregated and more than 60 years before Robinson broke the major leagues’ color line.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2023

The color line no longer bothered C.P., but there remained the far less visible but just as substantial line of class separating himself from people like Howard Clement.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson