Colour Bar (Noun)
Meaning
Barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites.
Classification
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
Examples
- The colour bar created a significant barrier to social integration in many institutions during the apartheid era.
- Apartheid's colour bar laws severely limited job opportunities for non-whites in South Africa.
- Racism in the sports world also existed in the form of the colour bar, which restricted blacks from competing with whites.
- Due to the colour bar, many public amenities and services in South Africa were inaccessible to non-whites during apartheid.
- The colour bar was enforced by law, severely restricting black people's access to education and employment.