segregationist
pronunciation
How to pronounce segregationist in British English:
UK [ˌsegrɪˈgeɪʃənɪst]
How to pronounce segregationist in American English:
US [ˌsɛɡrɪˈɡeʃənɪst]
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- Noun:
- someone who believes the races should be kept apart
Word Origin
- segregationist (n.)
- 1915, from segregation + -ist.
Example
- 1. Which means a segregationist is breaking the law .
- 2. Judge holt and brooks hays had gotten slightly more votes between them than the segregationist combo of johnson and alford .
- 3. Southern democrats filibustered to keep the segregationist jim crow laws alive .
- 4. Democrats filibustered to keep the segregationist jim crow laws alive .
- 5. Franklin d. roosevelt passed laws that brought labor and african-americans into the party , but declined to push for laws that would have driven away the white segregationist south .