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
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.
From BBC • Oct. 20, 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
Leaders of the party, which currently exists only in California, say it has disavowed its segregationist roots and is focused on conservatism and the Constitution.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2024
Hodges’ chief political foe at this time was an outspoken segregationist named I. Beverly Lake, an assistant state attorney general, who, it was rumored, planned to oppose Hodges in the 1956 gubernatorial race.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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