antidesegregation
Opposing forced integration
Antidesegregation describes opposition to ending racial segregation, particularly in American schools and public facilities during the civil rights era.
The term typically characterizes political positions, legislation, or movements that resisted integration: antidesegregation protests outside the schoolhouse, antidesegregation senators filibustered the bill.
Racial separation laws
- Plessy v. FergusonRuling allowing racial separation
- Brown v. BoardDesegregation Supreme Court decision
- white supremacyDoctrine of racial superiority
- Ku Klux KlanWhite supremacist hate organization
Reconstruction · Dixiecrat · George Wallace · Little Rock · poll tax · literacy test · grandfather clause · redlining
Prejudice based on ethnicity
- prejudicePreformed unfavorable opinion
- bigotryIntolerance toward differing views
- biasUnfair inclination or prejudice
- exclusionBeing barred from participation
inequality · apartheid · colorism · intolerance · xenophobia · ethnocentrism · supremacist · separatism
Official enactment of statutes
- ordinanceOfficial government regulation
- zoningSectioning areas by use
- gerrymanderingManipulating electoral boundaries strategically
- freedom of choiceLiberty to select options
neighborhood schools · tracking · private academies · tuition grants · tax exemption · quotas · court mandate · compliance
Capacity to withstand force
- backlashStrong negative reaction
- defianceOpen resistance to authority
- obstructionSomething blocking the way
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
boycott · filibuster · states' rights · reactionary · conservative · traditionalist · separatist · exclusionist
Jim Crow
Racial separation laws
- Plessy v. FergusonRuling allowing racial separation
- Brown v. BoardDesegregation Supreme Court decision
- white supremacyDoctrine of racial superiority
Ku Klux Klan · Reconstruction · Dixiecrat · George Wallace · Little Rock · poll tax · literacy test · grandfather clause · redlining · blockbusting
racism
Prejudice based on ethnicity
- prejudicePreformed unfavorable opinion
- bigotryIntolerance toward differing views
- biasUnfair inclination or prejudice
exclusion · inequality · apartheid · colorism · intolerance · xenophobia · ethnocentrism · supremacist · separatism · racial hierarchy
legislation
Official enactment of statutes
- ordinanceOfficial government regulation
- zoningSectioning areas by use
- gerrymanderingManipulating electoral boundaries strategically
freedom of choice · neighborhood schools · tracking · private academies · tuition grants · tax exemption · quotas · court mandate · compliance
resistance
Capacity to withstand force
- backlashStrong negative reaction
- defianceOpen resistance to authority
- obstructionSomething blocking the way
protest · boycott · filibuster · states' rights · reactionary · conservative · traditionalist · separatist · exclusionist · obstructionist
antidesegregationintegrationist
Opposes segregated systems
desegregation · antisegregation · egalitarian · civil rights · integration
segregate, segregation, desegregate, desegregation, segregated, desegregated, segregating, desegregating, segregationist