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colour line - barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites

color bar, color line, colour bar, Jim Crow

ideological barrier - a barrier to cooperation or interaction resulting from conflicting ideologies

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Jim Crow

I never could understand how he knew just where to draw the colour line, since the Indian and I were of about the same complexion.

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And again dodging the boom, I ran to the colour lines, handed down their cursed black flag, and chucked it overboard.

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