: characterized by or expressing opposition toward integration and especially racial integration
anti-integration laws/policies

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Those callers said they were motivated by anti-integration sentiment. — Kirsten Fiscus, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025 Many White parents objected, previewing arguments that would later be used in other anti-integration school campaigns. — John Blake, CNN, 12 Mar. 2025 The students became targets of anti-integration mobs, prompting then-President Dwight Eisenhower to deploy the National Guard to enforce the law and protect the students. — Beatrice Peterson, ABC News, 15 Apr. 2024 But during the period of Kasper’s anti-integration activism Ezra Pound was in the mix. — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023

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First Known Use

1946, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of anti-integration was in 1946

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“Anti-integration.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-integration. Accessed 30 Sep. 2026.

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