 Image from a quicklink (Image by Unknown Owner) Details DMCA | Eugenics was a scientific theory that grew in popularity during the 1920s. Eugenicists believed that poverty, promiscuity and alcoholism were traits that were inherited. To eliminate those society ills and improve society's gene pool, proponents of the theory argued that those that exhibited the traits should be sterilized. Some of America's wealthiest citizens of the time were eugenicists including Dr. Clarence Gamble of the Procter and Gamble fortune and James Hanes of the hosiery company. Hanes helped found the Human Betterment League which promoted the cause of eugenicists. It began as a way to control welfare spending on poor white women and men, but over time, states began targeting more women and more blacks than whites. A third of the sterilizations performed were done on girls under the age of 18. Some were as young as nine years old. |
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