The Road to Reversal
Extent and Medium
1 electronic resource (19 pages)
Creator(s)
- Putnam, Carleton, 1901-1998 (author)
Scope and Content
The file contains a brochure entitled “The Road to Reversal - Address delivered by Carleton Putnam” and published by the National Putnam Letters Committee in 1962. The text is a speech made by Carleton Putnam before the Fifth Annual Attorney General's Conference for District Attorneys in New Orleans/Louisiana on February 16, 1962. In his speech, Carleton Putnam takes up the criticism towards his book “Race and Reason”, in which he had countered the integrational politics of the Civil Rights movement and anti-segregation initiatives by putting forward the thesis of biological and evolutionary differences between people of African American background and people of European origin. He refutes his critics and calls his audience to resist the politics of integration and to understand them as a broader social and political battle.
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Electronic text and image data Jerusalem Yad Vashem 2015
Title viewed: 05/01/2021
Subjects
- Segregation in education--Law and legislation--Louisiana--History.
- Anthropologists--United States--History--20th century.
- African Americans--Segregation--History--20th century.
- Racism--United States--History--20th century.
- Minorities--Civil rights--United States--History--20th century.
Places
- Louisiana--Race relations.
- United States--Ethnic relations--Research.
- United States--Race relations--History--20th century.