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{{cquote|Started in 1937 by textile magnate Wickliffe Draper, the Pioneer Fund's original mandate was to pursue "race betterment" by promoting the genetic stock of those "deemed to be descended predominantly from white persons who settled in the original thirteen states prior to the adoption of the Constitution."<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/pioneer-fund | title = Pioneer Fund | work = Southern Poverty Law Center}}</ref>}}
The 1937 incorporation documents of the Pioneer Fund list two purposes. The first, modeled on the Nazi [[Wikipedia:Lebensborn|Lebensborn]] breeding program,<ref name="crawford">{{cite book |author=Crawford, James |title=Hold Your Tongue: Bilingualism and the Politics of 'English Only' |publisher=Addison Wesley |year=1993 |isbn=978-0-201-62479-3 }}</ref> was aimed at encouraging the propagation of those "descended predominantly from white persons who settled in the original thirteen states prior to the adoption of the [[Wikipedia:United States Constitution|Constitution of the United States]] and/or from related stocks, or to classes of children, the majority of whom are deemed to be so descended". Its second purpose was to support academic research and the "dissemination of information, into the 'problem of heredity and eugenics'" and "the problems of race betterment".<ref name="Mehler-fascism">{{cite journal |author=Mehler, Barry |title=Foundation for Fascism: the New Eugenics Movement in the United States |journal=Patterns of Prejudice |volume=23 |issue=4 |page=17 |year=1989 | doi = 10.1080/0031322x.1989.9970026 |url=http://faculty.ferris.edu/ISAR/archives/foundation-fascism.htm}}</ref> The Pioneer Fund argues the "race betterment" has always referred to the "human race" referred to earlier in the sentence, and critics argue it referred to racial groups. The document was amended in 1985 and the phrase changed to "human race betterment."

The Pioneer Fund supported the distribution of a eugenics film titled ''[[Wikipedia:Erbkrank|Erbkrank]]'' ("Hereditary Defective" or "Hereditary Illness") which was published by the pre-war 1930s [[Wikipedia:Nazi Party|Nazi Party]]. William Draper obtained the film from the predecessor to the Nazi [[Wikipedia:Office of Racial Policy|Office of Racial Policy]] (''Rassenpolitisches Amt'') prior to the founding of the Pioneer Fund.<ref name="Tucker2007">{{Cite book |title=The funding of scientific racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund |last=Tucker |first=William H. |authorlink=William H. Tucker |publisher=[[University of Illinois Press]] |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-252-07463-9 |laysummary=http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/bhm/summary/v077/77.4paul.html |laydate=26 July 2013 |ref=harv }}</ref> According to the Pioneer Fund site, all founders capable of doing so participated in the war against the Nazis.<ref name="pioneer-founders">{{cite web | publisher = Pioneer Fund | url = http://www.pioneerfund.org/Founders.html | title = Founders and Former Directors | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20121130130929/http://www.pioneerfund.org/Founders.html |archivedate=2012-11-30 | accessdate = July 16, 2006}}</ref>{{dox}}<sup>(Dubious claim)</sup>
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==See also==
*{{Wikipedia-inline|Pioneer Fund}}
*{{Wikipedia-inline|Mankind Quarterly}}
*{{Wikipedia-inline|Wickliffe Draper}}
*{{Wikipedia-inline|History of the race and intelligence controversy}}
==Notes==
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==External links==
*[https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/pioneer-fund Pioneer Fund], Southern Poverty Law Center.
*[https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2008/walter-p-kistler-becomes-sole-donor-racist-pioneer-fund Walter P. Kistler Becomes Sole Donor to the Racist Pioneer Fund], May 20, 2008, Southern Poverty Law Center.
*[https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Pioneer_Fund Pioneer Fund], SourceWatch.

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