color barrier
Racial exclusion boundary
The color barrier refers to social, legal, or institutional practices that excluded people based on race, particularly Black Americans from white-dominated spaces and opportunities.
The term gained prominence with Jackie Robinson's 1947 entry into Major League Baseball: Robinson broke the color barrier.
Breaking or crossing the color barrier means becoming the first person of color to participate in a previously segregated institution or field.
- segregationForced separation by group
- Jim CrowRacial separation laws
- separate but equalRacial segregation's constitutional fiction
- racismPrejudice based on ethnicity
- discriminationUnjust differential treatment
civil rights movement · Jackie Robinson · Major League Baseball · racial · racial divide · divide · exclusion · prejudice · equality · trailblazer · apartheid · boundary · glass ceiling · injustice · pioneer · struggle · movement · social progress
- Baseball HistoryBabe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, Lou Gehrig, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron
- civil rightsequal protection, equal rights, Civil Rights Act, right to life, Voting Rights Act
color barrierracial inclusion
Embracing all ethnicities equally
integration · desegregation · racial integration · racial equality · equal opportunity
color barrierracial equality
Equal treatment regardless of ancestry
equal rights · civil rights · nondiscrimination · equal treatment · fairness
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