In defending segregation, Perez said: "Do you know what the Negro is?

However, Bilbo was also an avowed racist who openly defended segregation and was a member of the Klu Klux Klan.

Rivers shifted his approach from defending segregation to the maintenance of law and order.

Though he was never known to utter a racial epithet, and though you would never catch him blocking a schoolhouse door, in the arena of politics Thurmond staunchly defended segregation.

Instead, he defended racial segregation, writing:

Mr. Warren's essay, "The Briar Patch," defended segregation as the best hope for blacks to have a decent life.

Proud of being a racist, Bilbo believed that black people were inferior, defended segregation, and was a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

The biographer Dan Carter found fellow crew members who remembered Mr. Wallace's barracks lectures defending segregation in Barbour County.

A well-educated slave owner, he rejected the principle of the Natural Rights of Man in order to defend legal slavery and segregation on the basis of race.

He had pledged to defend segregation, using the campaign motto, "No, not one," meaning not one black child in a white school.