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| 1907
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- Indiana passes first eugenic sterilization law
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| 1911
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- First International Congress of Eugenics, London
 - Eugenics Record Office established at Cold Spring Harbor
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| 1912-1914
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- First mass use of standardized IQ Test in USA: Ellis Island, created by Henry Goddard
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| 1914
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- First National Conference on Race Betterment held at Battle Creek, Mi.
- Race Betterment Foundation begun, largest eugenic center in the Midwest
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| 1915
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- Second National Race Betterment Foundation held
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| 1917
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 - US Army administered 8 Alpha and Beta Tests to 1.7 million recruits. Created by Henry Goddard, Lewis Terman, and Robert Yerkes.
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| 1918
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- The Galton Society established in NYC. Prestigious group of academics and funders endorse racist policies in American society
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| 1920-1924
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 - Harry Laughlin is appointed Expert Eugenics Agent for the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization.
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| 1921
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- Second International Congress of Eugenics, New York.
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| 1924
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- Immigration Restriction Act.
- Virginia Act to Preserve Racial Integrity.
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| 1925
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- The American Eugenics Society founded with focus on influencing American education and popular culture.
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| 1927
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 - Supreme Court Decision of Buck v Bell.
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| 1929![]()
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- Human Betterment Foundation established in Pasadena, Ca. Large focus on sterilization and will become most eugenics institution once the ERO closes in 1939.
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| 1932
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- Third International Congress on Eugenics, New York.
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| 1935
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- South Carolina 31st and last state to pass a eugenic sterilization law.
- Nazi Nuremberg Laws passed; modeled in part on American anti-miscegenation laws.
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| 1939
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- Edinburgh: 7th International Congress of Geneticists, first signed statement by a group of scientists condemning eugenics on scientific and ethical grounds.
- ERO closes, Carnegie Foundation pulls funding.
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| 1967
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 - Loving v. Virginia: Warren court strikes down the Racial Integrity Act of 1924 in Va., along with 15 other state anti-miscegenation laws.
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| 1972
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- Last of eugenic state sterilization laws removed.
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| 1994
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 - The controversial best seller, The Bell Curve, is published making latter day eugenic arguments on race and intelligence.
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