List of segregationists during the American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968)
- List of segregationists during the American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968)
This is a list of segregationists during the American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968). Many public figures, particularly in the South, defended compulsory racial segregation as an institution during the Civil Rights Movement, and many others did not condemn it; this list comprises those people who publicly supported segregation at the time, although many later modified or recanted their position as public sentiment shifted.
* Clarence C. Aycock
* Ross Barnett
* Bill Beeny
* Theodore G. Bilbo
* Albert Boutwell
* Bryant Bowles
* Parey Branton
* Overton Brooks
* C. Farris Bryant
* Harry F. Byrd
* Robert Byrd
* Howard "Bo" Callaway
* Francis Cherry
* Kent Courtney
* Jimmie Davis
* Wickliffe Draper
* James Eastland
* Allen J. Ellender
* Orval Faubus
* Murphy J. Foster
* William Fulbright
* John Sidney Garrett
* Jack P.F. Gremillion
* Jesse Helms
* Lister Hill
* Ernest F. Hollings
* Orville L. Hubbard
* Shelby M. Jackson
* James D. Johnson
* Bennett Johnston
* Bob Jones, Sr.
* B. Everett Jordan
* Robert F. Kennon
* James J. Kilpatrick
* Russell B. Long
* Speedy O. Long
* Charlton Lyons
* Lester Maddox
* James D. Martin
* John McClellan
* John McKeithen
* Harold Montgomery
* deLesseps Story Morrison
* John H. Overton
* Otto Passman
* Leander Perez
* William M. Rainach
* John Rarick
* A. Willis Robertson
* Richard B. Russell
* Victor Schiro
* John Sparkman
* John C. Stennis
* J. B. Stoner
* A. Roswell Thompson
* Strom Thurmond
* Ned Touchstone
* Joe Waggonner
* George Wallace
* Albert Watson
* John Bell Williams
* Edwin E. Willis
* Fielding L. Wright
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