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a person who supports racial segregation
segregationists versus integrationists a segregationist politician/state/attitude/view
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Recent Examples of segregationist
Advertisement By the time Republicans regained power in 1921, Wilson’s segregationist agenda had already altered the fabric of American life.
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Time, 14 Oct. 2025
Even after the Tennessee National Guard was summoned to restore order, staunch segregationists refused to let up.
—Andrea Williams, Nashville Tennessean, 27 Sep. 2025
Their activism drew hostility from segregationists, which cost them their jobs.
—Mariette Williams, AFAR Media, 9 Sep. 2025
And in 1962, President John F. Kennedy federalized the National Guard in Mississippi and brought in U.S. Army troops to quell a riot of segregationists who opposed the enrollment of a Black student at The University of Mississippi.
—Calmatters, Daily News, 9 June 2025
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Time, 14 Oct. 2025
Even after the Tennessee National Guard was summoned to restore order, staunch segregationists refused to let up.
—Andrea Williams, Nashville Tennessean, 27 Sep. 2025
Their activism drew hostility from segregationists, which cost them their jobs.
—Mariette Williams, AFAR Media, 9 Sep. 2025
And in 1962, President John F. Kennedy federalized the National Guard in Mississippi and brought in U.S. Army troops to quell a riot of segregationists who opposed the enrollment of a Black student at The University of Mississippi.
—Calmatters, Daily News, 9 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for segregationist
Noun
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Not long after she was hired by a prior commission that trumpeted its decision to appoint a Black woman, Bowden-Lewis implied the commissioners were racists for failing to appoint a Black candidate of her choice as the division’s human resources director.—
Edmund H. Mahony,
Hartford Courant,
6 Feb. 2026
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Court documents show Shadbar, who is white, yelled several derogatory racist and sexist slurs at his neighbors and had regularly harassed the family, including firing blank rounds toward Robertson’s home and throwing an M-80 type of firework over the fence into her yard.—
Michelle Mullins,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Feb. 2026
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The Iraqi prime minister at the time, Nuri al-Maliki, was a Shiite sectarian with close ties to Iran, and many of his fellow Shia thought he could be relied on to listen to Iran’s wishes and find a way to avoid clashing with an Iranian proxy militia.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
2 Sep. 2025
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Both sides insist the other initiated the initial volley of gunfire that killed four agents and six sectarians.—
Joshua Alston,
Variety,
12 Apr. 2023
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