segregationist

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

The movie trusts you know who segregationist George Wallace was, just as you’ll be able to appreciate the joy of seeing an unidentified Stevie Wonder on stage with Lennon.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 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

In the US, the word harks back to the Jim Crow era, when segregationist laws were instituted in the southern states to oppress black Americans after slavery was banned.

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2023

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