Wickliffe Draper

In 1937, Draper founded the Pioneer Fund "to advance the scientific study of heredity and human differences." However, Draper told a geneticist that he "wished to prove simply that Negroes were inferior." The Pioneer Fund was headed by the eugenicist, Harry H. Laughlin, an advocate for restrictive immigration laws and national programs of compulsory sterilization of the mentally ill and mentally retarded. He was also the director of the Eugenics Record Office (ERO) and was among the most active individuals in influencing American eugenics policy, especially compulsory sterilization legislation.