Sentence examples for colour bar from inspiring English sources
noun
The segregation of people of different colour or race, especially any barrier to black people participating in activities with white people.
Only Bicoherence values above the 95% significance level of 0.15 are coloured and the colour bar is shown on the right.
It was becoming clear that the colour bar was gradually being raised.
Constantine wrote several books on cricket and one book, Colour Bar (1954), on the race problem.
Whites demanded a "colour bar" to protect their access to certain jobs.
Controls over African labour mobility were tightened, and the colour bar in employment was extended.
A charismatic black man trying to break the ultimate colour bar.
Despite the colour bar, Paige faced the best major league players in exhibition games before 1948.
Abbott says there shouldn't be a "colour bar" on these transactions.
The ruse was unsuccessful, and the colour bar would not be breached until Branch Rickey signed Jackie Robinson in 1947.
In any case, once the team had left, the colour bar would have been clamped down again.
