as in racist
a person who supports racial segregation
segregationists versus integrationists a segregationist politician/state/attitude/view
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Near the entrance to the museum, there’s a wall of powerful segregationists, all white politicians of the period.
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Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
By Lottie Joiner September 19, 2024 7:02 AM EDT
In 1964, Courtland Cox was among hundreds of college students who traveled to Mississippi to help register Black people to vote, drawing strong opposition from the state's segregationists.
—Lottie Joiner, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
The main opposition to the act came from segregationists who feared that, unlike the predominantly European immigrants of the past, new arrivals to the United States were more likely to be nonwhite.
—James Morone, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2018
In 1962: Riots erupted at the University of Mississippi as segregationists violently opposed the enrollment of James Meredith, the first African American student at the university.
—The Arizona Republic, 30 Sep. 2024
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Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
By Lottie Joiner September 19, 2024 7:02 AM EDT
In 1964, Courtland Cox was among hundreds of college students who traveled to Mississippi to help register Black people to vote, drawing strong opposition from the state's segregationists.
—Lottie Joiner, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
The main opposition to the act came from segregationists who feared that, unlike the predominantly European immigrants of the past, new arrivals to the United States were more likely to be nonwhite.
—James Morone, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2018
In 1962: Riots erupted at the University of Mississippi as segregationists violently opposed the enrollment of James Meredith, the first African American student at the university.
—The Arizona Republic, 30 Sep. 2024
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“Segregationist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/segregationist. Accessed 26 Dec. 2024.
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