Weird Little Guys

Wickliffe Draper's Pioneer Fund started out in 1937 by funding screenings of Nazi propaganda films in high schools. But like most American racists, the 1954 Supreme Court decision in the Brown v Board of Education case changed how he approached the fight for white supremacy.Sources & Further Reading:Tucker, William (2002). The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and The Pioneer Fund. University of Illinois Press.Jackson, John P. Jr (2005). Science for Segregation: Race, Law, and the Case Against Brown v. Board of Education. New York University Press.Sussman, Robert Wald (2014). The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea. Harvard University Press.McMillen, Neil (1971). The Citizens’ Council: Organized Resistance to the Second Reconstruction, 1954-1964. University of Illinois PressKevin M. Kruse, The Paradox of Massive Resistance: Political Conformity and Chaos in the Aftermath of Brown v. Board of Education, 48 St. Louis U. L.J. (2004).Available at: https://scholarship.law.slu.edu/lj/vol48/iss3/13Thompson, Susan C. "Racial Injustice: A History of the Segregated School System in Jackson, Mississippi." Georgia State University, 2018. https://doi.org/10.57709/12100172Sadler, Cynthia Jones, "Standing in the Shadows: African American Informants and Allies of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission" (2011). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 268. https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/etd/268 https://www.mississippifreepress.org/how-integration-failed-in-jacksons-public-schools-from-1969-to-2017/https://www.nytimes.com/1964/05/06/archives/antiintegrationad-seeks-teachers-aid.htmlhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1998/02/20/justice-department-lawyer-george-s-leonard-86-dies/238e9399-ef53-4983-9814-40b2250a2223/https://ldfrecollection.org/content/archives/ba006941-a08b-4c85-b0d7-2f2e5ff00e85https://www.nytimes.com/1964/08/21/archives/jackson-schools-end-segregation-43-negroes-sign-up-quietly-for.htmlhttps://www.mississippifreepress.org/meridian-schools-no-longer-under-federal-supervision-stemming-from-1965-desegregation-lawsuit/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB929056013324992946https://www.nytimes.com/1964/03/19/archives/mississippi-agency-channels-260000-to-antirighits-drive.html https://da.mdah.ms.gov/sovcom/document/images/png/cd12/113717https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/coordinating-committee-for-fundamental-american-freedoms/https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htmhttps://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/nativist-lobby-three-faces-intolerance/https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/eugenics-voter-id-laws-thomas-farrs-connections-pioneer-fund/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sometimes when a weird little guy gets shot, the guy who killed him is just a weirder little guy. Original Air Date: 9/18/2025 Sources:Schmaltz, William H. (2000). Hate: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Washington, D.C.: Brassey'sSchmaltz, William H. (2013). For Race And Nation: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. River's Bend PressSimonelli, Frederick J. (1999). American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.Lee, Martin A. (1997). The Beast Reawakens. Boston: Little, Brown and Company.Rosenthal, A. M.; Gelb, Arthur (1967). One More Victim: The Life and Death of an American-Jewish Nazi. New York: New American LibrarySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In 1937, the heir to a textile manufacturing fortune established a charitable foundation to funnel money into disseminating propaganda produced in Nazi Germany. Since then, that fund has subsidized the overwhelming majority of research in the pseudoscientific field of 'race science.'Sources & Further Reading:Tucker, William (2002). The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and The Pioneer Fund. University of Illinois Press.Saini, Angela (2019). Superior: The Return of Race Science. Beacon Press.Gould, Stephen Jay (1996). The Mismeasure of a Man. Penguin Books.Lusane, Clarence (2003). Hitler’s Black Victims: The Historical Experiences of Afro-Germans, European Blacks, Africans, and African Americans in the Nazi Era. Routledge.Kühl, Stefan (1994). The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism. Oxford University Press.Barry Mehler, “The New Eugenics,” Science for the People (May/June 1983)Lorimer, Frank, et al. “The Role of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population.” The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly, vol. 49, no. 4, 1971, pp. 86–105. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3349466. “Current Topics.” The Economic Journal, vol. 45, no. 178, 1935, pp. 406–09. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2224670. “116. International Congress for the Scientific Investigation of Population Problems.” Man, vol. 35, 1935, pp. 109–109. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2790721. “Medical News.” The British Medical Journal, vol. 2, no. 3890, 1935, pp. 192–93. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25344986. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1994/12/01/the-tainted-sources-of-the-bell-curve/1994 publication of excerpt from The Bell Curve:https://newrepublic.com/article/120887/race-genes-and-iq-new-republics-bell-curve-excerptRebuttals published in the same issue:https://newrepublic.com/article/120890/responses-new-republics-bell-curve-excerptAndrew Sullivan’s 2022 articlehttps://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/03/denying-genetics-isnt-shutting-down-racism-its-fueling-it.htmlhttps://investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/race-science-inc/https://x.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1050391663552671744https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/business/media/im-still-reading-andrew-sullivan-but-i-cant-defend-him.htmlhttps://www.ub.edu/personal/docencia/infocomp/bell.htmhttps://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,748954-1,00.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/1956/06/17/archives/dr-cg-campbell-88-expert-on-eugenic.htmlhttps://www.nature.com/articles/136100c0https://www.nytimes.com/1935/08/31/archives/berlin-congress-ends-in-dispute-international-and-scientific-nature.htmlhttps://newrepublic.com/article/147960/charles-murray-marketing-geniusHerrnstein 1971 article in the atlantichttps://gwern.net/doc/iq/1971-herrnstein.pdfhttps://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/16/obituaries/richard-herrnstein-64-dies-backed-nature-over-nurture.htmlhttps://web.archive.org/web/20170324145730/http://www.intelligence.martinsewell.com/Gottfredson1997.pdfhttps://web.archive.org/web/20200608195813/http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/reingold/courses/intelligence/cache/eugenics2.htmlhttps://rethinkingschools.org/articles/the-bell-curve/https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2757926/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In 1904, men who believed in 'race science' put hundreds of people in a human zoo at the St. Louis world's fair. Today, those same racist, pseudoscientific views persist, and the men who hold them demand to be taken seriously in the name of academic freedom.Sources & Further Reading:Newkirk, Pamela (2015). Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga. Amistad.Saini, Angela (2019). Superior: The Return of Race Science. Beacon Press.McCray, Carrie Allen (2012). Ota Benga Under My Mother’s Roof. University of South Carolina Press.Gould, Stephen Jay (1996). The Mismeasure of a Man. Penguin Books.Nathan Cofnas’ Doctoral Thesis: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:bd78170f-1131-47ef-af8d-7a3bb2ef41d0https://jannalangholz.wordpress.com/2022/12/26/17-worlds-fair-deaths/https://thenewinquiry.com/blog/specimen-days-human-zoos-at-the-1904-worlds-fair/https://web.archive.org/web/20070610034510/http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Bontoc.htmlhttps://ashp.cuny.edu/documentaries-list/savage-acts-wars-fairs-and-empire-1898-1904/#https://www.wsj.com/opinion/free-expression/how-i-became-the-scapegoat-in-the-jason-arday-affair-dc134088https://investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/race-science-inc/https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/2007046/ghent-university-under-fire-for-appointing-us-philosopher-with-ties-to-scientific-racismhttps://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-biosocial-science/article/abs/reptiles-with-a-conscience-the-coevolution-of-religious-and-moral-doctrine-by-nathan-cofnas-pp-523-ulster-institute-for-social-research-press-london-2012-3000-isbn-9780956881151-paperback/4005A8AD3C5B21AC0A82A38D5D97BBF8https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/03/the-man-who-was-caged-in-a-zoohttps://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/nyregion/thecity/the-scandal-at-the-zoo.htmlhttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevmrjd9lj1ohttps://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/jan/06/harvard-claudine-gay-plagiarismhttps://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/largest-human-zoo-world-historySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In 1994, Byron de la Beckwith was finally convicted of murder for killing Medgar Evers in 1963. He died in prison, his story is over. But history repeats itself.Sources & Further Reading:Massengill, Reed (2024). Portrait of a racist: Byron De La Beckwith and the Assassination of Medgar Evers. Univ. of Tennessee Press.DeLaughter, Bobby (2001). Never Too Late: A Prosecutor’s Story of Justice in the Medgar Evers Case. Scribner.Mitchell, Jerry (2020). Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era. Simon & Schuster.Vollers, Maryanne (1995). Ghosts of Mississippi. Little Brown & Company.Newton, Michael (2010). The Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi. McFarland & Company, Inc.Dittmer, John (1994). Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. University of Illinois Press.Ball, Howard (2004). Murder in Mississippi. University Press of Kansas.Snipe, Tracy (2021). The 5th Little Girl: Soul Survivor of the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, The Sarah Collins Rudolph Story. Africa World Press.Doyle, William (2001). An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi 1962. Doubleday.Nossiter, Adam (1994). Of Long Memory: Mississippi and the Murder of Medgar Evers. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/719/1345/1438234/https://shadowproof.com/2018/03/07/documents-reveal-police-targeting-anti-racists-charlottesville/https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/4404359-DHS-Bulletin-Aug-9/https://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2007/may/30/dredging-up-the-past-why-mississippians-must-tell/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/us-government-spied-anti-ice-protestershttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/us/politics/dhs-inquiry-immigration-protests-minnesota.htmlhttps://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-minneapolis-news-agents-claim-alberto-castaeda-mondragn-hit-wall-shattered-skull-triggers-tension-hospital/18514566/https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72504545/ge-v-immigration-and-customs-enforcement/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.