American Breeders' Association
From Dickinson College Wiki
- Founded in 1903 by agricultural scientists
- members included commercial breeders, professors at agricultural colleges, and researchers at the US Department of Agriculture
- Eugenics Committee founded in 1906 and upgraded to a Section in 1910. Its aim was to promote a better selection of marriage mates and the control of the reproduction of the defective classes. It had a two fold responsibility:
- Eugenics Records Office work
- Committee work
- This area consisted of five sub-committees that were based on certain eugenic ideas including feeble-mindedness, insanity, epilepsy, criminality, and deafmutism
- These committees were to serve as local centers for collection of data and education and were to exist in connection with universities and other intellectual centers
- See the American Breeders' Association Self-Description here
- Although it had a membership of about 1,000, it avoided major popular campaigns and lobbying
