Henry Garrett (psychologist)

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Henry Garrett
Born
Henry Edward Garrett

(1894-01-27)January 27, 1894
PhD
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SpouseMildred Burch (m. until 1973)

Henry Edward Garrett (January 27, 1894 – June 26, 1973) was an American

Northern League, and the ultra-right wing political group, the Liberty Lobby
.

Early life and education

Henry Edward Garrett was born on January 27, 1894, in Clover, Virginia.[1] He was educated in public schools in Richmond, Virginia.[1] He graduated from the University of Richmond in 1915, and received a master's degree and a PhD from Columbia University.[1]

Career

Garrett began his academic career at Columbia University, where he became a full Professor of Psychology at Columbia in 1943.

United States Supreme Court's desegregation decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which he predicted would lead to "total demoralization and then disorganization in that order." He had given testimony favoring secondary school segregation in the Virginia case that was combined into Brown.[2]

In 1955, Garrett became a visiting professor in the Department of Education at the University of Virginia.[1] However, he was denied full professorship in the Department of Psychology due to his views on race.[1]

Garrett wrote a 1961 article in the journal

The American Psychologist the following year.[5]

Garrett wrote the introduction to Carleton Putnam's Race and Reason, published in 1961.[1] According to A.S. Winston, he "praised Byram Campbell's analysis of the Nordic as the ideal race."[1] He is credited with coining the term equalitarian dogma in 1961 to describe the by then mainstream view that there were no race differences in intelligence, or if there were, they were purely the result of environmental factors. He accused the Jews of spreading the dogma, and wrote that most Jewish organizations "belligerently support the equalitarian dogma which they accept as having been 'scientifically' proven".[1] He wrote in the White Citizens' Council monthly journal The Citizen, "Despite glamorized accounts to the contrary, the history of Black Africa over the past 5,000 years is largely a blank," and, "The crime record of the Negro in the United States is little short of scandalous" (Garrett 1968).

Garrett served as a Director of the Pioneer Fund from 1972 to 1973.

Death

Garrett died on June 26, 1973, in Charlottesville, Virginia.[6]

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