How to Use segregationist in a Sentence

segregationist

noun

• Here’s a joke: Q: What did the Nazi say to the segregationist?
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 25 Oct. 2017
• For segregationists, the anger was sparked by having to share space with those who didn’t look like them.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 14 July 2024
• On the first day of the new school year, angry mobs of segregationists confronted the nine students on their way to Central.
  — Lina Mai, Time, 22 Sep. 2017
• All the segregationists were in the Democratic party, or the lion’s share of them, almost all of them.
  — Nr Staff, National Review, 22 June 2019
• Rebelling against the segregationists in her midst, Holdman joined drives to register black voters in the South in the 1960s.
  — The New York Times, NOLA.com, 24 July 2017
• While on the campaign trail in 2016, President Trump tied present-day Democrats to the party's segregationist past.
  — Dominick Mastrangelo, Washington Examiner, 11 June 2020
• The mayor likened the struggle to fulfill the goal of bringing low-income housing to those neighborhoods to the segregationist South of decades ago.
  — Téa Kvetenadze, New York Daily News, 29 July 2024
• The bullet, fired by segregationist James Earl Ray, hit him in his lower right jaw, entered his neck and fractured his spine.
  — Jenny Jarvie, latimes.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• Part of the impetus of the conversation was the statements that the vice president made about his work with segregationists.
  — Matt Stevens, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2019
• Dreher does not claim to be anything so gauche as a segregationist or a neo-Confederate.
  — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 25 Jan. 2018
• DeRose knew Smith was a segregationist at heart and observers at the time accused him of inserting gender into the civil rights bill as a way to scuttle it.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 23 Aug. 2021
• The subsequent vote ended in a tie for seating or rejecting the Loyal Democrats—a shocking blow to the segregationists.
  — Samuel G. Freedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2023
• The worst of the worst bigots, segregationists and white supremacists in public and private life aligned squarely against the practice.
  — Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2019
• Kennedy knew that, for any Democrat of his era, a successful run at the White House would mean appeasing white Southern segregationists.
  — Vincent J. Cannato, WSJ, 26 July 2017
• According to segregationist thinking, the racist customs of the South were her own to determine.
  — Zz Packer, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2020
• The elder Stennis was a segregationist much of his career.
  — Emily Wagster Pettus, The Denver Post, 13 June 2020
• The facilities were previously named with the help of segregationists who held sway in the Jim Crow-era South and were all in states that joined the Confederacy.
  — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2023
• The national monument preserves the site of the Greyhound bus station as well as the location of the bus burning by white segregationists.
  — Erin Edgemon, AL.com, 21 June 2017
• In the June debates Harris revealed that she was being bussed to school while Biden was palling around with segregationists, resulting in the most talked about moment of those debates and a bump for Harris in the polls.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 30 July 2019
• In 1961, an event at Abernathy’s church hosted by King drew a huge crowd, but the church was soon surrounded by a mob of white segregationists who began throwing rocks through windows.
  — al, 22 Jan. 2020
• Among the larger people, there’s a segregationist faction called Think Big.
  — Charles McGrath, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
• But the measure was blocked a year later by a filibuster in the Senate led by segregationist Southerners.
  — Marianne Levine, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
• As the great-granddaughter of slaveowners and the daughter of a segregationist, Mulholland said she was often referred to as a traitor to her race for her civil rights work.
  — Tori B. Powell, CBS News, 28 May 2022
• The charge was used against him – most notably by former Sen. Strom Thurmond, a segregationist, who read his arrest record on the Senate floor and used it to delegitimize the civil rights movement.
  — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 1 June 2023
• Dr. King met with Johnson, who had been a former segregationist.
  — Tommy Tomlinson, Esquire, 25 Apr. 2017
• Speaking to a room full of obscenely wealthy people on Tuesday, Joe Biden took a break from asking for money to praise a segregationist—in the name of civility, of course.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 20 June 2019
• The images in this monograph — many of which Peck includes in the doc — revealed the violent segregationist policies that ordered South African life and forced Cole into exile.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 May 2024
• For southern segregationists, the violence was a way to keep the status quo, the white-supremacist order.
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2018
• Alabama Governor Kay Ivey apologized in 2020 for a racist and segregationist rhetoric that some leaders used at the time.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 15 Sep. 2023
• The history of sundown towns stretches back to the early 18th century, when the towns enforced de facto anti-Black segregation, whether or not segregationist laws were on the books.
  — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 7 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024