Article: A closer look at the Pioneer Fund: response to Rushton.(J. Philippe Rushton, Albany Law Review, vol. 66, p. 207, 2002)

INTRODUCTION

Recently in the Albany Law Review, Professor Paul Lombardo described the origins of the Pioneer Fund, noting the Nazi sympathies of Wickliffe Preston Draper, its founder, and Harry H. Laughlin, its first president. (1) My own recent book--The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund--came to similar conclusions about Pioneer's early history and went on to document the role played by its key directors in opposing the civil rights movement on the basis of putatively scientific evidence of black intellectual inferiority. (2) In response, Professor J. Philippe Rushton, the new president of the fund, denied all these charges as ...

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