A page from Mental Defectives in Virginia, 1915
Better Baby Contest, Indiana State Fair, 1930 For a touch of context, this was about promoting eugenics and these were tremendously popular through the nation from the 1910s through the.
Imani Gandy has a very useful run down of Margaret Sanger's complicated racial, sexual, and medical politics, politics that the right are simplifying and lying about in order to attack.
Better keep the underclass from reproducing. Will destroy the race or something. A prison doctor investigated by the California medical board after ordering tubal ligations without state approval is responsible.
