• Integrationist

    Full definition of integrationist

    Noun

    integrationist

    (plural integrationists)
    1. An advocate, supporter and/or practitioner of (social) integration, usually aiming for (more) equality.
      • 2008, January 4, David J. Garrow, Early Warriors in the Fight for Racial Equality, Instead the legal confrontation took place in the 1950s, when the Southern allegation “that integrationists were Communists” carried far greater resonance than it would have a decade earlier, and when “the power of the left to implement desegregation” — as Ms. Gilmore imagines it — no longer existed.

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