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Harry Hamilton Laughlin (1880-1943)
By: Rachel Gur-Arie
| Published: Dec 19, 2014
Harry Hamilton Laughlin helped lead the eugenics movement in the United States during the early twentieth century. The US eugenics movement of the…
Laughlin, Harry Hamilton, 1880-1943American Eugenics SocietyEugenicsDavenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944Eugenics--United States--History
Human Betterment Foundation (1928-1942)
By: Jill Briggs
| Published: Jul 10, 2013
In 1928 Ezra Seymour Gosney founded the non-profit Human Betterment Foundation (HBF) in Pasadena, California to support the research and publication…
OrganizationCaliforniaInvoluntary SterilizationSterilization (Birth control)Human reproduction
Madison Grant (1865–1937)
By: Aliya R. Hoff
| Published: Jun 20, 2021
Madison Grant was a lawyer and wildlife conservationist who advocated for eugenics policies in the US during the late nineteenth and early twentieth…
EugenicsGrant, Madison, 1865-1937Denali National Park and Preserve (Alaska)NazisWorld War, 1939-1945
Sterilization Act of 1924
By: Nathalie Antonios
| Published: Apr 14, 2011
The passage of the Virginia Sterilization Act of 1924 demonstrates how science has been used to drive policy throughout history. In the case of the…
LawEugenicsReproductionpublic health
Tomorrow's Children (1934)
By: Grace Kim
| Published: May 30, 2017
Tomorrow's Children is a film that tells the story of Alice Mason, a young woman whom the US government forcibly sterilizes because she comes from a…
LiteratureEugenicsInvoluntary SterilizationCompulsory SterilizationCensorship
Francis Galton (1822-1911)
By: Cera R. Lawrence
| Published: Apr 06, 2011
Sir Francis Galton was a British science writer and amateur researcher of the late nineteenth century. He contributed greatly to the fields of…
PeopleGalton, Francis, 1822-1911GeneticsReproductionBiography
Buck v. Bell (1927)
By: Nathalie Antonios, Christina Raup
| Published: Jan 01, 2012
In 1927, the US Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell set the legal precedent that states may sterilize inmates of public institutions because the court…
LawEugenicsConstitutional courtsSterilization (Birth control)Involuntary Sterilization
David Starr Jordan (1851-1931)
By: Jill Briggs
| Published: Jun 26, 2013
David Starr Jordan studied fish and promoted eugenics in the US during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In his work, he embraced…
EugenicsEvolutionEmbryosEmbryologyHeredity
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (1890- )
By: Rachel Gur-Arie
| Published: Jun 21, 2014
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) is a non-profit research institution that specializes in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, quantitative…
OrganizationWatson, James D., 1928-EugenicsBacteriophagesBrenner, Sydney
The Passing of the Great Race; or The Racial Basis of European History (1916), by Madison Grant
By: Aliya R. Hoff
| Published: Jul 12, 2021
In 1916, eugenicist Madison Grant published the book The Passing of the Great Race; or The Racial Basis of European History, hereafter The Passing of…
LiteratureEugenicsNuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949Involuntary sterilization--Law and legislationInterracial marriage--United States