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