How to Use segregationist in a Sentence

segregationist

noun
  • For segregationists, the anger was sparked by having to share space with those who didn’t look like them.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 14 July 2024
  • Dreher does not claim to be anything so gauche as a segregationist or a neo-Confederate.
    — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 25 Jan. 2018
  • On the first day of the new school year, angry mobs of segregationists confronted the nine students on their way to Central.
    — Lina Mai, Time, 22 Sep. 2017
  • All the segregationists were in the Democratic party, or the lion’s share of them, almost all of them.
    — Nr Staff, National Review, 22 June 2019
  • And the company had no plans to change its nineteenth-century segregationist roots.
    — Literary Hub, 11 May 2026
  • Their activism drew hostility from segregationists, which cost them their jobs.
    — Mariette Williams, AFAR Media, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Part of the impetus of the conversation was the statements that the vice president made about his work with segregationists.
    — Matt Stevens, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2019
  • Among the larger people, there’s a segregationist faction called Think Big.
    — Charles McGrath, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The worst of the worst bigots, segregationists and white supremacists in public and private life aligned squarely against the practice.
    — Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2019
  • According to segregationist thinking, the racist customs of the South were her own to determine.
    — Zz Packer, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2020
  • Near the entrance to the museum, there’s a wall of powerful segregationists, all white politicians of the period.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
  • The bullet, fired by segregationist James Earl Ray, hit him in his lower right jaw, entered his neck and fractured his spine.
    — Jenny Jarvie, latimes.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • For southern segregationists, the violence was a way to keep the status quo, the white-supremacist order.
    — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2018
  • If Joe Biden talks about missing more segregationists tomorrow, maybe Booker will get a boost.
    — Michael Arceneaux, Essence, 27 June 2019
  • The mayor likened the struggle to fulfill the goal of bringing low-income housing to those neighborhoods to the segregationist South of decades ago.
    — Téa Kvetenadze, New York Daily News, 29 July 2024
  • But the measure was blocked a year later by a filibuster in the Senate led by segregationist Southerners.
    — Marianne Levine, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
  • DeRose knew Smith was a segregationist at heart and observers at the time accused him of inserting gender into the civil rights bill as a way to scuttle it.
    — Rodney Ho, ajc, 23 Aug. 2021
  • The national monument preserves the site of the Greyhound bus station as well as the location of the bus burning by white segregationists.
    — Erin Edgemon, AL.com, 21 June 2017
  • The subsequent vote ended in a tie for seating or rejecting the Loyal Democrats—a shocking blow to the segregationists.
    — Samuel G. Freedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2023
  • As the great-granddaughter of slaveowners and the daughter of a segregationist, Mulholland said she was often referred to as a traitor to her race for her civil rights work.
    — Tori B. Powell, CBS News, 28 May 2022
  • At the State House, there are pro-Confederate statues and sculptures of segregationists.
    — Ken Makin, Christian Science Monitor, 1 May 2025
  • The vagueness of the order, however, emboldened segregationists across the South.
    — Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Rebelling against the segregationists in her midst, Holdman joined drives to register black voters in the South in the 1960s.
    — The New York Times, NOLA.com, 24 July 2017
  • With segregationists in control of the federal government, Wilson took swift action.
    — Time, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Kennedy knew that, for any Democrat of his era, a successful run at the White House would mean appeasing white Southern segregationists.
    — Vincent J. Cannato, WSJ, 26 July 2017
  • In the late 1970s, Wallace renounced his former segregationist views and apologized for his past actions.
    — Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Southern white segregationists certainly questioned the motives of the many clergy members who descended on Selma.
    — Aniko Bodroghkozy, The Conversation, 24 Feb. 2026
  • In Colorado’s school busing debate, Zenzinger and Colorado Democrats took the side of modern-day segregationists.
    — Tyler Sandberg, The Denver Post, 16 July 2019
  • Speaking to a room full of obscenely wealthy people on Tuesday, Joe Biden took a break from asking for money to praise a segregationist—in the name of civility, of course.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 20 June 2019
  • Even after the Tennessee National Guard was summoned to restore order, staunch segregationists refused to let up.
    — Andrea Williams, Nashville Tennessean, 27 Sep. 2025

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