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segregationist

noun as in racist

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Worse, it portrayed the beloved character of Atticus Finch as a segregationist.

It’s where segregationists rioted over black Air Force veteran James Meredith’s attempt to integrate the University of Mississippi in 1962.

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.

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For America, the swimming pool is also an archetypal segregationist site of historical cruelty and exclusion.

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In the 20th century, Presidents Kennedy and Johnson each used it three times, most often to protect the civil rights of Black Americans against “rebellious” segregationists.

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