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

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.

From BBC • Oct. 20, 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

When Jimmy lost his first race for governor — to segregationist Lester Maddox — she was there to help him strategize, and successfully rebound when he ran again in 1970.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2023

That seemed the most effective way to overthrow segregationist Jim Crow laws.

From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman