According to Russ Bellant, it was later also incorporated in the United States through the personal agency of Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton, a member of the British Cliveden Set which supported appeasement of Adolf Hitler prior to World War II.
[3] Drawing on arguments presented by Gregor, members of the organization including Garrett and Donald A. Swan worked to oppose school integration following Brown v. Board of Education, arguing that racism was "rooted in normal social behavior" and that protecting Black children from supposed harm stemming from contact with white people would make for a more morally persuasive defense of segregation.
[3] Gregor would later assert[citation needed] that his association with the organization was based on his concerns about congenital birth defects and the reproduction of the mentally retarded, as opposed to racial matters.
Other members included Senator Jesse Helms and the oil billionaires William Herbert and Nelson Bunker Hunt.
[citation needed] The IAAEE's main benefactor was Colonel Wickliffe Draper, a segregationist who opposed the civil rights movement of the 1960s and sought to fund research that would provide scientific justification for segregation and revive the concept of racial hygiene which had been discredited as a result of the Nazis.