[Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Color Line"

[Shapiro, Fred]

color line (OED 1874)

1872 Republican (Springfield, Mass.) 20 June 4/3 (Genealogy Bank)

The attempt to preserve and deepen the color line in our political contests is fraught with mischief and misery to both races.

Fred Shapiro


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