Grant, Madison, 1865-1937

LC control no.	no 97066686
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Grant, Madison, 1865-1937 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Other standard no.	0000000121017053 60013382 Q1337762
Birth date	1865-11-19
Death date	1937-05-30
Place of birth	New York (N.Y.)
Place of death	New York (N.Y.)
Field of activity	White supremacy movements--United States White nationalism Racism Eugenics Conservationists
Affiliation	American Eugenics Society
Profession or occupation	Lawyers
Special note	URIs added to this record for the PCC URI MARC Pilot. Please do not remove or edit the URIs.
Found in	The conquest of a continent, 1977: t.p. (Madison Grant, Pres., New York Zoological Society; author, "Passing of the great race") OCLC, 11/13/97 (hdg.: Grant, Madison, 1865-1937; usage: Madison Grant) New Yorker, Aug. 26, 2019: page 36, in an article entitled, Old hatreds (the "better" Madison Grant helped found the conservation movement in America and headed the commission that built the Bronx River Parkway; like a character in a comic book who harbors an inner arch-villain with a plan to destroy the universe, Grant had another side. Just as he feared that certain species of native wildlife would go extinct, he feared that the same would happen to a precious (and largely imaginary) kind of white person. To address this potential disaster, in 1916 he published what remains his best-known book, "The Passing of the Great Race; or, the Racial Basis of European History"; it became one of the most famous racist books ever written; Grant took pride in the Nazis' use of his book, was also a director of the American Eugenics Society, [and] thought "worthless" individuals should be sterilized) Wikipedia, 25 August, 2019 (Madison Grant; born November 19, 1865 in New York, N.Y., died May 30, 1937 in New York, N.Y.; American lawyer, writer, and zoologist known primarily for his work as a eugenicist/racist and conservationist as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the Progressive Era; as a eugenicist/racist, Grant was responsible for one of the most notorious works of scientific racism, and played an active role in crafting strong immigration restriction and anti-miscegenation laws in the United States; As a conservationist, Grant is credited with the saving of many different species of animals, founding many different environmental and philanthropic organizations and developing much of the discipline of wildlife management) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Grant>
Associated language	eng