segregationist
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- ultrasegregationist noun
Etymology
Origin of segregationist
First recorded in 1910–15; segregation + -ist
Example Sentences
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Worse, it portrayed the beloved character of Atticus Finch as a segregationist.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
White bridge-builders were key to liberating the segregationist South, as the historian David Chappel shows in his book Inside Agitators.
From Salon • Aug. 23, 2024
In 1968, segregationist George Wallace ran for president backed by the American Independent Party.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2024
In the US, the word harks back to the Jim Crow era, when segregationist laws were instituted in the southern states to oppress black Americans after slavery was banned.
From BBC • Dec. 8, 2023
And black leaders, aware of Clark’s segregationist views and explosive temper, expected him to display, for the world to see, the violence that assailed blacks when they tried to exercise their right to vote.
From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman
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