The Funding of Scientific Racism : Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund
"The Pioneer Fund, established in 1937 by Wickliffe Preston Draper, is one of the most controversial nonprofit organizations in the United States. Long suspected of misusing social science to fuel the politics of oppression, the fund has specialized in supporting research that seeks to prove the genetic and intellectual inferiority of blacks while denying its ties to any political agenda." "This volume provides abundance evidence that the Pioneer Fund has indeed been the primary source for scientific racism. Revealing a lengthy history of concerted and clandestine activities and interests, The Funding of Scientific Racism examines for the first time archival correspondence that incriminates the fund's major players, including Draper, the recently deceased president Harry F. Weyher, and others."--BOOK JACKET
History
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Introduction: Keepers of the Flame
1. Our Northern Friend: A Tale of Two Colonels
2. Somebody Whose Views He Could Not Approve: The Formation and Re-formation of the Pioneer Fund
3. Our Source of Funds: The Campaign against Civil Rights
4. They Are Not Like Us: The Pioneer Fund in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Conclusion: Pioneer or Pamphleteer