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For exact citations for all the evidence presented here, see our full report.​

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Archival Sources

Archives, American Philosophical Society

Charles B. Davenport Papers

Institute Archives, California Institute of Technology

E. S. Gosney Papers And Records Of The Human Betterment Foundation, Archives

Special Collections, Stanford University

David Starr Jordan Papers

 

Journals and Newspapers

The American Israelite

American Journal of Sociology

The  Atlantic

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The Guardian

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San Francisco Chronicle

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