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The American Eugenics Society ... Margaret Sanger, a birth control activist, "was a member of the AES in 1956 and established the Birth Control League in 1921". [7]
Unlike the American movement, one publication and one society, the German Society for Racial Hygiene, represented all German eugenicists in the early 20th century. [ 128 ] [ 129 ] After 1945 some historians began to try to portray the U.S. eugenics movement as distinct and distant from Nazi eugenics.
In 1928, he retired from industry and became a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History studying eugenics, anthropology, and population. Osborn was one of the founding members of the American Eugenics Society in 1926 and joined the British Eugenics Society in 1928, serving as its Secretary in 1931.
Theodore Lothrop Stoddard (June 29, 1883 – May 1, 1950) was an American historian, journalist, political scientist and white supremacist. Stoddard wrote several books which advocated eugenics, white supremacy, Nordicism, and scientific racism, including The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy (1920).
It became the Eugenics Society in 1924 (often referred to as the British Eugenics Society to distinguish it from others). [2] From 1909 to 1968 it published The Eugenics Review, a scientific journal dedicated to eugenics. [2] Membership reached its peak during the 1930s. [4] The Society was renamed the Galton Institute in 1989. [5]
The Population Association of America (PAA) is a non-profit scientific professional association dedicated to the study of issues related to population and demography. [3] The PAA was established by Henry Pratt Fairchild and Frederick Osborn , [ 4 ] with funds secured by Margaret Sanger from the Milbank Memorial Fund . [ 5 ]
Former President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric recalls the eugenics movement and the influence it had on American life in the early 1900s, writes Paul Moses.
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, he served on the boards of many eugenic and philanthropic societies, including the board of trustees at the American Museum of Natural History, as director of the American Eugenics Society, vice president of the Immigration Restriction League, a founding member of the Galton Society, and one of the eight members ...