First National Conference on Race Betterment: Difference between revisions

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held January 8-12, 1906 in Battle Creek, Michigan
objectives included:
- promoting the segregation or sterilization of defectives
- promoting outdoor life, open air schools and playgrounds, temperance in diet, and rural living
- encouraging eugenic marriages by requiring medical certificates before granting licenses
- establishing a eugenics registry in order to facilitate the creation of a race of human thoroughbreds
notable attendees:
- Kellogg
- Davenport
- Laughlin

[1] The Southern Workman, Vol XLIII. Hampton, Va: The Press of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural, 1915

[2] Edwin Black, War Agains the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2004.

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-*held in Battle Creek, Michigan
+*held January 8-12, 1906 in Battle Creek, Michigan
-*its objective was to lay the foundation for the creation of a human super race
+*objectives included:
-**the conference urged that head's of state institutions were not only willing to help organize such practices, but completely in approval of them
+**promoting the segregation or sterilization of defectives
+**promoting  outdoor life, open air schools and playgrounds, temperance in diet, and rural living
+**encouraging eugenic marriages by requiring medical certificates before granting licenses
+**establishing a eugenics registry in order to facilitate the creation of a race of human thoroughbreds
+*notable attendees:
+**Kellogg
+**Davenport
+**Laughlin
+====Sources====
+[1] ''The Southern Workman,'' Vol XLIII. Hampton, Va: The Press of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural, 1915
+[2] Edwin Black, ''War Agains the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race,'' Thunder's Mouth Press, 2004.
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+Back to [[The Race Betterment Foundation]]