About This Directory

This directory groups historical figures by the principal role through which they became significant to the history of slavery, white supremacy, segregation, racial repression, political disfranchisement, or violence against Black people and civil-rights movements. “Antagonist” is used here as an analytical classification within the MGU biography collection; individual biographies provide the historical context, evidence, controversies, and balanced assessment appropriate to each subject.

Slavery, Pro-Slavery Politics, and the Confederacy

Reconstruction Opposition and Black Disfranchisement

Jim Crow and Segregationist Political Leaders

Massive Resistance and White Citizens' Council Organizers

Law Enforcement and State Power

Ku Klux Klan and White Supremacist Organizers

Racial Violence, Terror, and Civil-Rights-Era Killings

Racial Ideologues, Propagandists, and Patrons

Nazism and Neo-Nazism