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...DISCOVERED Carleton Putnam only last Friday, at Widener's monthly sale of used books and records. I'd never heard of him; there was no reason I should have, although I'm pretty familiar with what's being written and said these days by Allan Bloom, George Will, and Dinesh D'Souza...
...introduced to Putnam by the impulse purchase for 50 cents of an old album whose cover stated it had been recorded at a banquet at the Heidelberg Hotel in Jackson, Mississippi on the night of October 26, 1961. The featured speaker was Carleton Putnam, a Northern historian and author who "urged the South to take the lead in preserving the racial integrity of American whites...
...audience that Putnam addressed that night included many of the leading whites of Mississippi, including the governor and at least one member of Congress. These people faced a serious challenge. Earlier that year, Jackson had been targeted by Black activists who were arrested and jailed for trying to use whites-only facilities. The federal government and most Northerners seemed to be siding with the Blacks...
...Putnam told his audience that the root of their problems was not really the activists, nor even the Supreme Court's ruling against segregation. The movement for integration, he said, had begun in the universities, where left-wing professors had launched "a ceaseless barrage of false science, false sentimentality, and false political theory" to promote "the idea that all races are equal in their adaptability to our Western culture...
These scholars--who, Putnam suggested, were mostly Jews--had created "a climate of silence and fear of reprisal" in which scientists dared not openly admit to believing Blacks were genetically inferior to whites. Putnam even quoted professors who said they feared being denied tenure if they expressed their real views. His speech drew thunderous applause...