Charles Davenport

Season 30

In 1910, Charles Davenport founded Eugenics Record Office to collect human heredity data.

A proponent of Eugenics crusade, Charles Davenport believed that selective breeding could transform the human race. He founded the Eugenics Record Office in 1910 and recommended widespread eugenics education, including immigration laws to keep out the "defectives" and forced sterilization of native born and immigrants.

AIR DATE 10/8/18

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