integrationist, n. and a.
(ɪntɪˈgreɪʃənɪst)
[f. integration + -ist.]
A. n. An adherent or advocate of integration, esp. political or racial.
| 1955 N.Y. Times 1 June 29/3 The initial reaction, including segregationists and integrationists, overridingly stressed the court's ruling. 1956 Atlantic Monthly Nov. 49/1 It is because there the adolescent and ‘unprejudiced’ mind can be reached that the integrationists have chosen the Southern schools as their primary target. 1959 Listener 27 Aug. 305/1 It is becoming less and less possible for the ‘integrationists’ to paper over the cracks by references to General de Gaulle's ‘silences’. 1963 Economist 23 Feb. 695/2 This racial appeal is disliked by integrationists. 1971 Black Scholar Jan. 52/1 In the work of black authors who are integrationists a tacitly separatist or ethnically independent element appears frequently. |
B. adj. Of, or pertaining to, persons or policies favouring integration, esp. political or racial.
| 1956 Newsweek 21 May 17/1 A political unknown named Sumter Lowry, who ran on the single plank of preserving segregation, got 130,000 votes. An integrationist candidate got 5,000. 1958 Times 11 Nov. 8/1 The solitary list is strongly integrationist, and is led by Azem Ouali, a prominent member of the Algeria-Sahara public safety committee. 1968 Ann. Amer. Acad. Pol. & Social Sci. CCCLXXVI. 199/2 These Negroes fervently embraced an integrationist ideology. 1973 Black World Mar. 34 The integrationist tendencies of the Negro intellectuals. 1973 E. Bullins Theme is Blackness 4 The militant integrationist syndrome. |