integrationist
nounEtymology From integration + -ist.
1
An advocate, supporter and/or practitioner of (social) integration, usually aiming for greater 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.2008 January 4, David J. Garrow, “Early Warriors in the Fight for Racial Equality”, in New York Times:
- Synonyms
- desegregationist, egalitarian
- Antonyms
- segregationist
- Related terms
- integrationism