Brown v Board of Education v The Pioneer Fund, Pt 1
Summary
Host Molly Conger explores how Wickliffe Draper’s Pioneer Fund secretly bankrolled Mississippi’s anti-civil rights efforts and organized a team of eugenicists to challenge school integration. The episode details Draper’s strategy of funding pseudo-scientific research and propaganda to legitimize segregation, highlighting his connections to the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission and the Citizens Council. It also examines the formation of the International Association for the Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics, which used fabricated science to argue against desegregation in court.
Topics discussed
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Desegregation in Mississippi and Medgar Evers
Context: Race Science and the 1960s
Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund
Funding the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission
Draper's Estate and the Citizens Council
Impact of the Brown v. Board Decision
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Distributing 'White America' and Repatriation
Senator Theodore Bilbo and Draper's Support
Realigning the Pioneer Fund Post-Brown
Funding the Coalition of American Patriotic Societies
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Wesley Fitz George and the IAAE
The IAAE and the Human Diversity Foundation
Show Credits and Final Sponsors
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