[Ads-l] Antedating of "Color Line"

[Shapiro, Fred]

color line (OED, 2., 1874)

1873 _Daily Examiner_ (San Francisco) 2 Sept. 2/4 (ProQuest)  Now the negroes, everywhere but in California, are seeking their rights. ... [they] demand that there shall be no color line dividing citizenship.

Fred Shapiro

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