Sentence examples for colour barrier from inspiring English sources

Oprah has also shattered the colour barrier.

It was only later, when I became older, that I learned what "colour barrier" meant.

Robinson "broke the colour barrier" in 1947 when he was picked on first base by the Brooklyn Dodgers, ending six decades of segregation.

His deep love of African music vaulted the colour barrier that was in place in his home country for more than 40 years.

Motley signed with Cleveland as a fullback in 1946, breaking professional football's 13-year colour barrier along with three other players.

Though he had made several public declarations that there was no colour barrier in baseball, during his tenure Landis prevented any attempts at signing black players.

But Humpris says the blurring of colour barriers is also making it more universal.

He died the year that America's first black president took office, one of the last and highest colour barriers to fall here.

Financial hardship may be a colour blind barrier to getting into the arts (and it was depressing that the working class actor Bob Hoskins was left out of the Bafta commemoration of those who had passed away this year), but the figures speak for themselves.

And in those days, when most were migrants to Britain, facing the same sort of colour-based barriers, there was a natural strong solidarity between all of us.

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