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Definition of Colour line
1. Noun. Barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colour Line
Literary usage of Colour line
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South America: Observations and Impressions by James Bryce Bryce (1912)
"... there is in Spanish and Portuguese countries no such sharp colour line as
exists where men of Teutonic stock are settled in countries outside Europe. ..."
2. Democracy and Race Friction: A Study in Social Ethics by John Moffatt Mecklin (1914)
"It is fraught with the greatest complications and hence is a fruitful source of
the race antagonism manifest in the "colour line." The race relations in ..."
3. A Text-book of psychology by Edward Bradford Titchener (1910)
"We notice, however, that this red is not, in reality, the starting-point of a
psychological colour-line ; it is not a pure ..."
4. Black America: A Study of the Ex-slave and His Late Master by William Laird Clowes (1891)
"The colour line question has nearly caused a split in the Independent Baptists'
Union. An organisation composed of Baptist ministers of Virginia, ..."
5. Outlines of psychology, with special references to the theory of education by James Sully (1888)
"A fine feeling for beauty of colour, line, or sound, is best secured by exercising
the child in reproducing what he sees or hears. The teaching of drawing, ..."
6. The East and the West (1905)
"THE PASSING OF THE colour line. WHEN the approximation of races varying in colour
is made the subject of conversation, the mind generally turns to the ..."
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