segregationist

[seg-ri-gey-shuh-nist]

noun

1. one who favors, encourages, or practices segregation, especially racial segregation.

Other Word Forms

• ultrasegregationist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of segregationist¹

First recorded in 1910–15; segregation + -ist

Example Sentences

Kathy couldn’t control what the police would do; nor could she control what the White residents of Greensboro might do—and segregationists didn’t spare women.

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Worse, it portrayed the beloved character of Atticus Finch as a segregationist.

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It’s where segregationists rioted over black Air Force veteran James Meredith’s attempt to integrate the University of Mississippi in 1962.

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Set in Maycomb, it sees two siblings, clearly Lee and her older sister Alice, confounded by her sister's black gardener Arthur, who's from the North but has apparently decided to work in the segregationist South.

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For America, the swimming pool is also an archetypal segregationist site of historical cruelty and exclusion.

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