color line
Example Sentences
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Robinson broke baseball’s color line and led the Brooklyn Dodgers to the World Series.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Robinson broke baseball’s color line on April 15, 1947, when he took the field in a game at Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
She was determined to shine a light on what, for many Americans on both sides of the color line, is a hidden and forgotten history.
From Salon ● Dec. 13, 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
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
