This broadside asserts “there is a basic, inherent mental difference between the races,” citing IQ tests and a booklet by Henry E. Garrett,
How Classroom Desegregation Will Work (1966).
Henry Garrett was at the forefront of a resurgence of racial pseudoscience in the mid-twentieth century. He argued for segregation in
Davis v. County School Board (one of the cases in Brown v. Board), compiled a pamphlet of his essays for the white supremacist
Citizens’ Council, and his views were used to forward the work of other eugenicists.
Excerpts:
That is why Classroom Desegregation will
never work: There is a basic, inherent mental difference between the races. If you mix the classrooms and gear the standards to Negroes, you deny White children their optimum chance. If you gear the standards to White mentality, you develop frustrations on the part of Negroes, with subsequent antagonisms, drop-outs, and "delinquencies...."
Race differences, as an issue, is the overriding problem of our time. These differences are something too few of us know about. Now is the time to learn, before it is too late. If you
know what you are talking about, you can help defeat Black Power. Only the truth will keep us free.