1.   And he paid special tribute to the white producers and directors who had helped him break the color barrier for Hollywood leading men.

2.   At that point, with the major-league color barrier having been broken, the Negro Leagues were dying.

3.   Baylor Freedom also committed the no-no of breaking the chalk color barrier.

4.   Being married to the first man to break the color barrier in major-league baseball gave Rachel Robinson a platform, too.

5.   Better late than never to honor a man who played such an important role in breaking the color barrier in the major leagues.

6.   A year before Robinson played his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Brown smashed the modern color barrier in professional sports.

7.   But he was too old for the major leagues by the time the color barrier was broken.

8.   By the time Virgil broke down his part of the color barrier, he met little resistance.

9.   Discrimination, of course, knows no color barriers, and any sports figure whose insensitivities become public should be chastised.

10.   Espinoza is from one of the racially and culturally blended areas of the globe where color barriers, not Jackie Robinson, would have been the anomaly.