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Madison Grant

American lawyer

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eugenics
Eugenics organizations and legislation
…group, the New York lawyer Madison Grant, aroused considerable pro-eugenic interest through his best-selling book The Passing of the Great Race (1916). Beginning in 1920, a series of congressional hearings was held to identify problems that immigrants were causing the United States. As the country’s “eugenics expert,” Harry Laughlin provided…
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…group, the New York lawyer Madison Grant, aroused considerable pro-eugenic interest through his best-selling book The Passing of the Great Race (1916). Beginning in 1920, a series of congressional hearings was held to identify problems that immigrants were causing the United States. As the country’s “eugenics expert,” Harry Laughlin provided…
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Henry Fairfield Osborn
Charles Benedict Davenport and lawyer Madison Grant. Purporting to be a scientific society, the group used the scientific reputation of its members and now-debunked scientific studies of racial differences to further the U.S. eugenics movement, including passage of immigration restriction laws. In 1926 he, Grant, and several others founded the…
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Charles Benedict Davenport and lawyer Madison Grant. Purporting to be a scientific society, the group used the scientific reputation of its members and now-debunked scientific studies of racial differences to further the U.S. eugenics movement, including passage of immigration restriction laws. In 1926 he, Grant, and several others founded the…
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