Get the FREE one-click dictionary software for Windows
or the iPhone/iPad and Android apps
Noun: color line
Usage: US (elsewhere: colour line)
  1. Barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites
    "The color line in sports was finally broken in the mid-20th century";
    - color bar [US], colour bar [Brit, Cdn], colour line [Brit, Cdn], Jim Crow

Derived forms: color lines

Type of: ideological barrier

Encyclopedia: Color line