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1963
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Difference In Race, Intelligence
Four leading social scientists distributed in
.ebool districts
>ublic schools.
some southern committee
for use in 1*;
in a symposium published Mon
day by the Anti-Defamation Lea
gue of B'nai B’rith refute claims
of “innate mental differences
between Negroes and whites and
declare there is no significant
relationship between race and in
telligence.
Their analysis challenges re
cent etforts by advocates of seg
legation to find scientific sup
port for branding Negroes a race
intellectually Inferior to whites.
The panelists in the sympos
ium are Silvan S. Tompkins, pro
fessor of psychology at Prince
ton University; Ralph H. Turn
er, chairman of the department
of sociology and anthropology at
the University of California at
’,cs Angeles: Prof Sherwood L.
Washburn, former chairman of
the anthropology department at
the University of California at
Berkeley; and Dr. Henry C. Dy
er, vice president of the Educa
tional Testing Service in Prince-
:oh. N.J.
Princeton Prof
Their Observations
In answer to questions base
upon the Shuey-Garrett-George-
Putnam works, the scientists
made these observations:
— Behavior and achievement
’.Kin; Nejrcea vary with Pm
community in which they live
no are attributable primarily
to the ways in which whites treat
\egroes and the ways in whic?
they react to this treatment.
— There are no tests of native
intelligence: every response to
the stimulus material in intelli
genre tests is a learned response
— ‘The only relatively exact
method of identifying native hu
man canacities would depend on
t h e identification of specific
:enes in man. and research
which traced them over gener
ations. Methods available at the
present time use circumstantial
evidence.
— It is not legitimate to speak
of “Negro intelligence'* vs.
"white intelligence" since intelli
gence is an individual rather
than a group characteristic.
Same Pattern
UNESCO social
dentists. The statement said in
art: “It is now generally re-1
ognized that intelligence tests
o not themselves enable us to
iifferentiate safely between
>hat is due to innate capacity
and what is the result of en-
ii-onmenlal influences, training
and education....Given similar
eorecs Qi cultural oppjrtunuy
to achieve their potentialities.
ie average achievement of the
members of each ethnic group
■s about the same.”
Professor Washburn's special
report, included in the new
League publication, cnUs racism
a relic supported by no phase
of modern science.” The anthro
pologist said “all men are adap
ted to learn language, to per-
•erm skillful tasks, to cooper
ate. to enjoy art, to practice
religi„u, philosophy and science."
He added that a “profound
misunderstanding of culture, of
learning and of the biology of
the human species has denied
equal opportunity to the Negro
and made his progress lag ap
proximately twenty years behind
that of the white."
We are primitives living by
antiquated customs in the midft
of scientific progress. Races
are products of the past...cl
times and conditions which have
long ceased to exist,” Professor
Washburn declared.
DR. F. A. COLES
Economist
Joins Staff
In Calif.
SANTA MONICA. CALIF.
Dr Melvin M. Turn Pi. profes-
— aor of sociology at Princeton Uni-
Dr. F. A. Coles. Jr., has joined 'ersity. is editor of the analysis
theTSystem 'DMelopmeftt Corpor- Published under the title Race
—White IQ. scores show the
and Intelligence. It includes a same major pattern as the Negro
alien's Planning Staff, it was
The study ef Race, made — high scores occur where there
announced by SDC Director of 5y Professor Washburn before is the greatest educational op-
Planning. Saadia M. Schorr. the American Anthropological portunity.
Dr. Coles will be engaged In Association of which he is past
the analysis of the economic en
vironment in support of corpor
ate planning activities.
Prior to joining SDC. Dr. Coles
served in a number of significant
government positlons with the
U. S. Agency for International
Development and Its predecei
organizations, the International
Cooperation Administration, the
Foreign Operations Administra
tion, the National Security Agen
cy, and the Economic Coopera
tion Administration.
From July of 1961 through mid
president.
— There are no innate (actors
which make it problematic for
Negro and white children or
adults to share the same cultural
facilities.
Principal advocates of the the
sis of Negro intellectual Infer
iority attacked by the panelists
are Dr. Audrey Shuey. author
of The Testing ef Negro InteUl-
geace; Carlton Putnam, author
of Race and Reason; Dr. Henry;
Garrett, professor emeritus of
Columbia University and Dr.
Wesley C. George, author of The
dngy of the Race Problem,
a report he was commissioned
— Racism bars the opportun-
to write by the Governor of Ala-
____ ity to compete, not because a
works have been
widely used by advocates of seg-i6rouP cannot compete success-
their posi- fuUy- but because it can. If Ne
groes could not pass college ex-
the Shuey- aminations, it would not be nec-
to have laws to keep
— There is no evidence that
some differences in gene fre
quencies and anatomical varia
tions bet-we-e-o Negroes and
whites are In any way relevant
to the two group's common par
ticipation In the affairs of 'our
society or to the behavior of
either group.
The panel called
tion.
East Division.
essary to have taws to
them out.
March of 1963. Dr. Coles served regation to justify
as Program Officer with the U.
S. Aid Mission to Ceylon. Prior
Garrett • George • Putnam find
to this, with the Near East and
ings of Negro intellectual infer
South Asia region of the Inter
iority insupportable “by any sub
national Cooperation Administra
In addition, the scientists
stantial scientific evidence.” It
tion he served as Israeli Desk
called the concept of native in
Officer and Chief of the Near criticized Dr. Shuey. a psycholo-
telligence “essentially meaning
gist. for relying upon two “un
less" and branded I.Q. tests “in
scientific devices”: indiscrimin
capable" of identifying genetic
ately lumping together studies
differences between groups “if
that incorporate efforts to con
such differences exist.” They set
trol environment with studies
that do not, and accepting as three conditions which would
conclusive the residue of differ- have to be met before attempt-
ing an effective determination of
ences in I. Q. which remained
"whether there are native dif
after “crude and approximate’’
ferences in intelligence" between
corrections were made to com
Negroes and whites.
pensate for environment.
Drummond's
Motion Denied
3 Conditions
Federal Court Judge Thomas
Murphy has denied motions
by convicted Navy Yeoman
Nelson Cornelius Drummond
seeking to set aside his convic-
whA
Mr. Putnam's work, the panel
said, based its argument upon
. AA« Dr- Shuey's findings and upon
comparative history of civil-
comes up for sentencing on Au-
mid K wn*
•rat Court jury of conspiracy^
a-.J Vmr a TTnnrl - JUSt One 01 tuGITT, the SUp*
3A Mr Ihltnam- 8 former airlines
uilnr xttwvmoted to executive and nOW *0 a«thor,
year-oM sailor had attempted to L published various articles
suasian agents__________ _ th>t Negroes are genetically
Farm rirtt h»hit Rj»rf the Wotogically inferior. His
Form the right habit Read the ^
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Amsterdam News every week. Ration leaders including Gover-
Inor Ross Barnett and has been
Out every Thursday.
1) The distinctive genetic ho
mogeneity of the Negro group ,
being tested, as against that of
the white group being tested,
must be demonstrated, not as
sumed.
2i The social and cultural si
tuations of the Negroes and
whites being tested must be
equal.
3* Adequate tests of native
intelligence and other mental and
psychological capacities, with
proven reliability and validity,
must be used.
The four men gave full sup
port to a statement made by a
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DENT — President Kennedy
greets Major John D. Attaway,
executive officer of the 122nd
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The Anti-Defamation League
said it offered Race aad Intelli
gence as an answer to those
who “accept and circulate”
The marines who embarked at
statements derogatory to
Ne- Camp Lejeune. N.C. tor the cruise
groes “without questioning their were Benjamin Wright, son of
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Mrs. Catherine Walker of 539
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W. 163rd St., Eddie Williams, son
515 Madison Avenue, New York.
of Mrs. Peart A. Williams of 117
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sterdam News will March on
Washington. D. C. ea August 28.
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