Someone who believes the races should be kept apart

Usage examples of segregationist.

Despite poorly paid professors and regular assaults by segregationist state politicians on academic freedom of thought, Ole Miss students equaled or beat national norms in most fields in graduThe Warrior25 ate exams, and the school produced more Rhodes scholars than almost every other Southern university.

He was a sophisticated, wealthy, full-time segregationist intellectual, with a body that towered like an oak tree and a face like that of a thickened Clark Gable.

The council sponsored segregationist radio and TV shows, school essay contests, and propaganda mailings, and kept files on white citizens to eradicate any glimmerings of dissent.

The leading newspapers and TV and radio stations in Jackson were controlled by Citizens Council hard-liners, who kept up a steady drumbeat of segregationist editorials and slanted news coverage.

Democratic ticket of Kennedy and Johnson in favor of a protest vote for segregationist senator Harry Byrd of Virginia and the symbolic vision of massive resistance.

With seconds to spare, the battered marshals were finally reinforced by Alabama National Guard troops and by Alabama Public Safety Director Floyd Mann, head of the state Highway Patrol, who despite his allegiance to the segregationist state government, impressed federal officials as a dedicated professional.

Louisiana segregationist leader Willie Rainach also pledged ten thousand volunteers to Bar- nett.

Across the region, cars and trucks full of armed and unarmed fighters were surging toward Oxford from all directions, especially from segregationist strongholds in adjacent Alabama and Louisiana.

If he could pull this off, Barnett would be anointed by segregationist multitudes as virtually the Second Coming of Christ, as both peacemaker and conqueror.

Barnett decided not to make the battle-cry speech his radical segregationist advisers were calling for.

Mounger sped over to the studios of segregationist WLBT-TV and WJDX radio, burst in unannounced, marched into the broadcast booth and demanded to be put on the air.

Before that night, segregationist strategists in Mississippi were convinced that integration could be blocked in the streets by a wall of flesh.

Unlike the former segregationist Alabama governor George Wallace, who late in his life repeatedly begged black audiences for forgiveness, there would be no transformation, no catharsis, and no apologies by Ross Barnett.

Unlike the segregationist Democrats who opposed him, McCarthy was famously color-blind, religion-blind, gender-blind, sexual orientation-blind.

Mitchell Palmer, appointed by still-revered segregationist Democrat Woodrow Wilson, who won the 1916 election based on lies about intelligence and war plans.