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Noun: color bar
Usage: US (elsewhere: colour bar)
  1. Barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites
    "The color bar in sports was finally broken in the mid-20th century";
    - colour bar [Brit, Cdn], color line [US], colour line [Brit, Cdn], Jim Crow

Derived forms: color bars

Type of: ideological barrier

Encyclopedia: Color bar