segregationist

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Guided by that principle, one of us helped launch an effort within Maryland’s Department of Juvenile Services to examine its history, including its segregationist past.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

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

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