• restricted to whites only


    lily-white meaning & definition 1 of lily-white.


  • A shade of the color white.

    lily-white meaning & definition 2 of lily-white.


  • Pure, unblemished, immaculate.

    lily-white meaning & definition 3 of lily-white.


  • The lily-white movement was an anti-black political movement within the Republican Party in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a response to the political and socioeconomic gains made by African-Americans following the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which eliminated slavery except as punishment for a crime.During Reconstruction, black leaders in Texas and around the country gained increasing influence in the Republican Party by organizing blacks as an important voting bloc via Union Leagues and the biracial black-and-tan faction of the Republicans. Conservative whites attempted to eliminate this influence and recover white voters who had defected to the Democratic Party.

    lily-white meaning & definition 4 of lily-white.


  • Lily-white is an adjective used to describe something as pure white, often associating it with purity or innocence. It can also be used in a sociopolitical context to refer to organizations, groups, or areas being exclusively or predominantly composed of white people, often implying the exclusion or marginalization of other racial or ethnic groups.

    lily-white meaning & definition 5 of lily-white.


  • of a pure white color

    lily-white meaning & definition 6 of lily-white.

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