He emerged as a progressive lawmaker, opposing racial segregation and supporting fairer legislative representation for urban counties.

The organization's goal, he said, is to "advance integration and oppose segregation."

Opposed racial segregation in churches.

Gladden was probably the first leading U.S. religious figure to support unionization of the workforce; he also opposed racial segregation.

Here he opposed segregation by endeavouring to set up an integrated monastery, but circumstances forced him to move to Martinique.

His predecessors could not have been elected if they opposed segregation.

Her personal liberalism found expression in those years, and she was a founding member of the interracial Southern Conference for Human Welfare, which opposed segregation.

Discussions promoting monogenism, for example, were often used to oppose slavery and segregation.

A growing core of Samford faculty and students opposed segregation.

Mr. Ashcroft said, "I have always opposed segregation.