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In 1909 a eugenics law was passed in California allowing for state institutions to sterilize those deemed "unfit" or "feeble-minded". [12] The Asexualization Act authorized the involuntary sterilization of certain groups of people, including inmates of state hospitals, certain institutionalized people, life-sentenced prisoners, repeat offenders of certain sexual offenses, or simply repeat ...
Contents. Eugenics in the United States. Eugenics, the set of beliefs and practices which aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population, [ 1 ][ 2 ] played a significant role in the history and culture of the United States from the late 19th century into the mid-20th century. [ 3 ]
Charles Goethe. Charles Matthias Goethe (March 28, 1875 – July 10, 1966) [1] was an American eugenicist, entrepreneur, land developer, philanthropist, conservationist, founder of the Eugenics Society of Northern California, and a native and lifelong resident of Sacramento, California.
Eugenics. A 1930s exhibit by the Eugenics Society. Some of the signs read "Healthy and Unhealthy Families", " Heredity as the Basis of Efficiency" and "Marry Wisely" respectively. Eugenics (/ juːˈdʒɛnɪks / yoo-JEN-iks; from Ancient Greek εύ̃ (eû) 'good, well' and -γενής (genḗs) 'born, come into being, growing/grown') [ 1 ] is a ...
The California genocide was a series of systematized killings of thousands of Indigenous people of California by United States government agents and private citizens in the 19th century. It began following the American Conquest of California from Mexico, and the influx of settlers due to the California Gold Rush, which accelerated the decline ...
Henry Herbert Goddard (August 14, 1866 – June 18, 1957) was an American psychologist, eugenicist, and segregationist during the early 20th century. He is known especially for his 1912 work The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness, [2] which he himself came to regard as flawed for its ahistoric depiction of the titular family, and for translating the Binet-Simon ...
The state of California was at the vanguard of the American eugenics movement, performing about 20,000 sterilizations or one-third of the 60,000 nationwide from 1909 up until the 1960s. [104] By 1910, there was a large and dynamic network of scientists, reformers and professionals engaged in national eugenics projects and actively promoting ...
Ezra Seymour Gosney (November 6, 1855 – September 14, 1942) was an American businessman and philanthropist who supported the practice of eugenics.In 1928 he founded the Human Betterment Foundation (HBF) in Pasadena, California, with the stated aim "to foster and aid constructive and educational forces for the protection and betterment of the human family in body, mind, character, and ...