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 (and the number of African American voters in their areas increased).

  • Clarence C. Aycock
  • Ross Barnett
  • Bill Beeny
  • 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 C. Wallace
  • Albert Watson
  • John Bell Williams
  • Edwin E. Willis
  • Fielding L. Wright