“...we might name the following: A campaign of education among all classes of our population which will foster the eugenics conscience. Many of our people… have been victims of the “ingrowing eugenic conscience”... their failure to become parents has meant a distinct national loss”.
-Eugenics, Genetics and the Family : Volume I, 1923
“The stocks which carry the germ plasm of leadership, talent and ability must be nurtured and increased, better babies must be the watchword...the race must be purified. Eugenics must be taught throughout our national educational system.” |
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“[The objectives of the Committee on Eugenics are] to investigate and report on heredity in the human race; to devise methods of recording the values of the blood of individuals, families, peoples and races; to emphasize the value of superior blood and the menace to society of inferior blood; and to suggest methods of improving the heredity of the family, the people, or the race.”
- David Starr Jordan, Chairman, Committee on Eugenics, American Breeders Association (1908)
The ABA, established in 1903, was a foundation that applied Mendel’s laws of genetics. It was one of the first to support the Eugenics Movement and played an important role in legitimizing it.
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"At the 1924 Kansas Free Fair, winning families in three categories — small, average, and large — were awarded a Governor's Fitter Family Trophy, presented by Governor Jonathan Davis. "Grade A Individuals" won a Capper Medal, named for the United States Senator Arthur Capper and portraying two diaphanously garbed parents, their arms outstretched toward their (presumably) eugenically meritorious infant."
-Daniel J. Kevles, "In the Name of Eugenics" (1995)
Families, individuals, and babies would go through tests to compete for prizes.
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