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| Henry Edward Garrett (27 January 1894—26 June 1973) was an
American psychologist and segregationist. Garrett was President
of the American Psychological Association in 1946 and Chair of
Psychology at Columbia University from 1941 to 1955. A.S.
Winston chronicles Garrett's involvement in the International
Association for the Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics
(IAAEE), the journal Mankind Quarterly, the neofascist Northern
League, and the ultra-right wing political group, the Liberty
Lobby. In the 1950s Garrett helped organize an international
group of scholars dedicated to preventing race mixing,
preserving segregation, and promoting the principles of early
20th century eugenics and "race hygiene." Garrett was a strong
opponent of the 1954 United States Supreme Court's desegregation
decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which he predicted
would lead to "total demoralization and th