Example sentences for: segregationist

How can you use “segregationist” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • We see Wallace (Gary Sinise) lose his first bid for governor in 1958 to an opponent who capitalized on segregationist themes and racist rhetoric.

  • In short, Thurmond spent the first three-quarters of his political life as an ardent segregationist and pork-barreler, and the last quarter merely as a pork-barreler.

  • The Democratic Party spurned Mississippi's "Freedom Party" delegation, seating a bloc of segregationist whites instead.

  • But though he amply covers the higher-stakes political events, he never allows them to eclipse his larger story: farmers and teachers, sharecroppers and dentists, prying their freedom loose from the grip of segregationist whites--and in so doing stripping away the racist restrictions that had always made the achievements of American democracy ring hollow.

  • Wallace, the profile argues, claimed to have repudiated racism but used issues such as crime and welfare as veils for old-school segregationist politics.


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