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- noun Plural form of
segregationist .
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Examples
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Let me tell you a story to illustrate exactly what the segregationists are asking for.
Archive 2009-08-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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Let me tell you a story to illustrate exactly what the segregationists are asking for.
A Sodomite's Sermon Hal Duncan 2009
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Within a few years many of the old white segregationists—Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms, to name two—had left the party to become Republicans.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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When I was a young senator, the segregationists told me that racial integration would weaken the nation.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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By this time the Southern segregationists had lost the major battles over civil rights, but Allen still stood for a small reactionary bloc that continued to fight rearguard actions against almost all social justice legislation.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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Lyndon Johnson, shown signing the legislation, made a crucial last-minute phone call that enabled us to break a filibuster by Southern segregationists and pass the bill.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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Lyndon Johnson, shown signing the legislation, made a crucial last-minute phone call that enabled us to break a filibuster by Southern segregationists and pass the bill.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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By this time the Southern segregationists had lost the major battles over civil rights, but Allen still stood for a small reactionary bloc that continued to fight rearguard actions against almost all social justice legislation.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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Likewise during the civil rights era, while the civil rights movement relied substantially on black churches as sources of both organization and inspiration and also found allies in many Northern mainline Protestant churches, some segregationists also found a religious rationale for their beliefs.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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Within a few years many of the old white segregationists—Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms, to name two—had left the party to become Republicans.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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