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

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

In the US, the word harks back to the Jim Crow era, when segregationist laws were instituted in the southern states to oppress black Americans after slavery was banned.

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2023

And black leaders, aware of Clark’s segregationist views and explosive temper, expected him to display, for the world to see, the violence that assailed blacks when they tried to exercise their right to vote.

From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman