Ethnic Mixing Quotes
This was a bomb-shell statement at the time. Advocates for equality and desegregation usually tried to avoid this issue and Black leaders in particular were afraid of a backlash if they included this issue in the argument for equality. Du Bois did not run from the issue. His position was used by segregation leaders to show what “evils” would befall the nation if segregation was ended. See {586739}.
Lawrence was one of the very advanced scientists of his time presaging Darwin on a few issues. But he erroneously believed that character and intellect were heretical capabilities. Intellect has been shown to be an inheritable trait to some extent (50-60 percent), but it is not racial per se. And character as we now know is not inherited.
Bilbo was one of the worst racists who ever served in the Congress.
Agassiz, a prominent Harvard professor was considered the leading biological and zoological scientist in America, Yet he was totally wrong about most of his conclusions regarding regarding species and races from horses to humans. He was one of the few scientists who rejected Darwin’s approach to evolution and that that Asians, Blacks, Whites and Indians were separate species and other erroneous things as this quote about mixed race humans.