Joseph LeConte

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2020 In 2020, in wake of the George Floyd protests and subsequent public reconciliation of systematic racism in public history, the Sierra Club described their own early history as intermingled with racism.[12] In particular, the early Sierra Club favored the needs of white members to the exclusion of people of color, and Muir and some of his associates, such as Joseph LeConte, David Starr Jordan, and Henry Fairfield Osborn were closely related to the early eugenics movement in the United States.[12][13] Michael Brune, writing as the executive director of the Sierra Club, disavowed founder John Muir in the summer of 2020,[14] but some board members said Brune's characterization of Muir was not representative of the organization.[15]