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

His segregationist father had started the family peanut business, and his mother, Lillian, was a registered nurse.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2024

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

Leaders of the party, which currently exists only in California, say it has disavowed its segregationist roots and is focused on conservatism and the Constitution.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2024

It would be the first time ever that segregationist student leaders would be coming to talk to us integrating students in a reasonably safe place where we all could speak our minds.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals