#WickliffeDraper
6 entries tagged WickliffeDraper.
People (3)
- Harry Weyher New York tax lawyer who was Wickliffe Draper's personal attorney from 1955, executor of his will, and president of the Pioneer Fund from 1958 until his death in 2002.
- John C. Satterfield Yazoo City lawyer and president of the American Bar Association in 1961 who ran the Washington lobby against the Civil Rights Act on anonymous money from Wickliffe Draper passed through the Mississippi treasury.
- Wickliffe Draper Massachusetts textile heir who founded the Pioneer Fund in 1937 and secretly sent nearly 215,000 dollars through Morgan Guaranty to the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission to fight the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Organizations (3)
- Coordinating Committee for Fundamental American Freedoms Washington lobby against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, chaired by the publisher William Loeb, that drew three quarters of its 343,191 dollars through the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, most of it from Wickliffe Draper.
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Mississippi state agency that from 1956 to 1973 paid informants to watch civil rights workers, financed the Citizens' Councils, and passed a New York heir's anonymous stock gifts to a lobby against the Civil Rights Act.
- Pioneer Fund New York foundation created in 1937 by Wickliffe Draper to promote eugenics, which became the main financier of race and intelligence research in the United States and of many scholars cited in The Bell Curve.