ABSTRACT
As hinted at quite broadly in the immediately preceding chapter regarding the race funding career of Outhwaite of the Memorial, foundation support of black social scientists between the World Wars was a status quo oriented response to changes in the social, economic, and geopolitical status of Blacks in a society presumed to be permanently biracial in law and thought. Through documentation largely drawn from foundation archives and the biographies of philanthropists, foundation administrators, and social scientists, the race leader role that foundations expected black social scientists to fulfi ll in a rigid racial caste order is further discussed. Mention is also made of how the accommodative race leadership role foundations created for black social scientists restricted their range and control of research activities and infl uenced the careers of Charles S. Johnson, E. Franklin Frazier, and other black social scientists.
