integrationist
English
Etymology
integration + -ist
Noun
integrationist (plural integrationists)
- An advocate, supporter and/or practitioner of (social) integration, usually aiming for greater equality.
- 2008 January 4, David J. Garrow, “Early Warriors in the Fight for Racial Equality”, in New York Times:
- 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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Synonyms
- desegregationist
- egalitarian
Antonyms
- segregationist
Related terms
- integrationism