Editing George Eastman (section)

=== Views on race ===
Marion Gleason, a close confidante of Eastman, later described his views on African Americans as "typical of his time – paternalistic, but strictly against social fraternization."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Gleason |first=Marion |date=1971 |title=The George Eastman I Knew |url=https://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/3593 |journal=University of Rochester Library Bulletin |volume=XXVI |issue=3}}</ref> Although he made generous donations to the [[Hampton University|Hampton Institute]] and [[Tuskegee University|Tuskegee Institute]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Ackerman |first=Carl W. |title=George Eastman : Founder of Kodak and the photography business |date=2000 |publisher=BeardBooks |isbn=1-893122-99-9 |location=Washington, D.C. |pages=466 |oclc=58845378 |orig-year=1930}}</ref> becoming their largest donor in his era,<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Murphy |first=Justin |date=June 7, 2021 |title=George Eastman created Rochester's middle class. Why was the Black community left behind? |pages=1, 18A |work=[[Democrat and Chronicle]] |url=https://www.democratandchronicle.com/in-depth/news/2021/06/07/george-eastman-kodak-rochester-ny-legacy-black-race-relations-philanthropy/4755198001/ |access-date=January 5, 2023}}</ref> he also upheld and reinforced the de facto [[Racial segregation|segregation]] which existed in Rochester. Kodak hired virtually no black employees during Eastman's lifetime, and a 1939 commission of the [[New York State Legislature]] on living conditions of African Americans found that Kodak had only a single black employee.<ref>New York (State). Temporary commission on the condition of the colored urban population. (1939). ''Second report of the New York state Temporary commission on the condition of the colored urban population to the legislature of the state of New York, February 1939,'' p. 41. Albany: J. B. Lyon company.</ref> The Eastman Dental Dispensary also rejected black applicants, and the Eastman Theater restricted black patrons to its balcony. Eastman rejected several requests to meet with [[NAACP]] representatives, including a direct appeal from president [[Walter Francis White|Walter White]] in 1929.<ref name=":1" />

From 1925 until his death, Eastman donated $10,000 per year to the [[American Eugenics Society]] (increasing the donation to $15,000 in 1932), a popular cause among many of the upper class when there were concerns about immigration and "race mixing".<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{cite book |last=Spiro |first=Jonathan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H7lRrCIcsncC&pg=PA353 |title=Defending the Master Race: Conservation, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Madison Grant |publisher=[[UPNE]] |year=2009 |isbn=978-1-58465-810-8 |pages=182, 353 |access-date=October 1, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413210831/https://books.google.com/books?id=H7lRrCIcsncC&pg=PA353 |archive-date=April 13, 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref>