color barrier

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   the barrier preventing Blacks from participating in various activities with whites

   Broaderbarrier

Questions about color barrier

What does color barrier mean?

color barrier means "the barrier preventing Blacks from participating in various activities with whites".

Is color barrier a common word?

color barrier is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.