Carleton Putnam has been dropped down the memory hole because he was at odds with the idea of racial equality, but in his time he was one of the foremost intellectual defenders of the idea through the 1960s.
Putnam was a well-born New Yorker with roots deep in New England history. A Princeton man and graduate of Columbia University Law School, he created a major airline and wrote an much acclaimed biography of Theodore Roosevelt. Driven by opposition to the Supreme Court's 1954 school desegregation decision (Brown vs Topeka Board of Education), turned out a classic defense of racial segregation with his 1961 book, Race and Reason, a Yankee View.
Written for the average man, Race and Reason presents calm, authoritative arguments that are as persuasive today as they were 50 years ago. "Putnam never overstated his case or drove his conclusions beyond what the scientific data permit," noted Jared Taylor.
Here is a recording of a speech by Putnam in Jackson, Mississippi from Nov. 21, 1961, listen and learn:
http://www.archive.org/details/CarletonPutnamRaceAndReasonDaySpeech102661
Putnam was a well-born New Yorker with roots deep in New England history. A Princeton man and graduate of Columbia University Law School, he created a major airline and wrote an much acclaimed biography of Theodore Roosevelt. Driven by opposition to the Supreme Court's 1954 school desegregation decision (Brown vs Topeka Board of Education), turned out a classic defense of racial segregation with his 1961 book, Race and Reason, a Yankee View.
Written for the average man, Race and Reason presents calm, authoritative arguments that are as persuasive today as they were 50 years ago. "Putnam never overstated his case or drove his conclusions beyond what the scientific data permit," noted Jared Taylor.
Here is a recording of a speech by Putnam in Jackson, Mississippi from Nov. 21, 1961, listen and learn:
http://www.archive.org/details/CarletonPutnamRaceAndReasonDaySpeech102661