integrationist

English

Etymology

integration +‎ -ist

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”, 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.

Related terms

• integrationism

Synonyms

• desegregationist
• egalitarian

Antonyms

• segregationist