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a person who supports racial segregation
segregationists versus integrationists a segregationist politician/state/attitude/view
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Thurmond, the fervent segregationist senator from South Carolina, spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes — 46 minutes less than Booker.
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Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2025
The record was previously held by segregationist South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond with his 24 hour and 18 minute filibuster against the 1957 Civil Rights Act.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 1 Apr. 2025
For several years in the nineteen-fifties, the family quietly supported a local paper aligned with the segregationist White Citizens’ Council.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
Local residents, university students and segregationists protested James Meredith’s enrollment at the school, which was all-white, according to the University of Georgia.
—Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 22 Jan. 2025
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Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2025
The record was previously held by segregationist South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond with his 24 hour and 18 minute filibuster against the 1957 Civil Rights Act.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 1 Apr. 2025
For several years in the nineteen-fifties, the family quietly supported a local paper aligned with the segregationist White Citizens’ Council.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
Local residents, university students and segregationists protested James Meredith’s enrollment at the school, which was all-white, according to the University of Georgia.
—Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 22 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for segregationist
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Parker grew up in nearby Summit and was the cousin of Emmett Till, who was murdered by Southern racists in Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman.—
Hank Beckman,
Chicago Tribune,
23 June 2025
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Seven people were kicked out of the courtroom by O’Hare for speaking out of turn and calling members of the court racists and devils.—
Rachel Royster,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 June 2025
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People want to get rid of religious parties, people want to put sectarians behind to build an Iraq for all Iraqis.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
22 May 2015
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Both sides insist the other initiated the initial volley of gunfire that killed four agents and six sectarians.—
Joshua Alston,
Variety,
12 Apr. 2023
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