First National Conference on Race Betterment

• 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

Sources

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

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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