| | The Second Klan, an organization which outspokenly extolled eugenics, promoted fearmongering of "inferior stock" replacing "superior" groups. Although earlier race demagogues accused upper-class women for having insufficient children, the KKK did not denounce birth control, and feared that black birth rates were too high.<ref>Gordon, Linda (October 15, 2017). ''Threat to Democracy: The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s: A Warning from History''. ''Google Books''. Retrieved December 12, 2022.</ref> Many Klan members were instead prone to supporting contraception, most notably evident in Sanger's invitation to speak before the Silver Lake, New Jersey group. | | The Second Klan, an organization which outspokenly extolled eugenics, promoted fearmongering of "inferior stock" replacing "superior" groups. Although earlier race demagogues accused upper-class women for having insufficient children, the KKK did not denounce birth control, and feared that black birth rates were too high.<ref>Gordon, Linda (October 15, 2017). ''Threat to Democracy: The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s: A Warning from History''. ''Google Books''. Retrieved December 12, 2022.</ref> Many Klan members were instead prone to supporting contraception, most notably evident in Sanger's invitation to speak before the Silver Lake, New Jersey group. |
| − | [[Lothrop Stoddard]], a prominent birth control activist from [[Massachusetts]], was invited to the board of directors of the American Birth Control League by Sanger. According to ''Hearst's International'' in 1923, there was "documentary evidence" that Stoddard was an [[Exalted Cyclops]] of the Ku Klux Klan.<ref>1923. [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hearst_s_International/MwLnAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=lothrop+stoddard+exalted+cyclops&pg=RA1-PA10&printsec=frontcover Hearst's International: Vol. 44], p. 10. ''Google Books''. Retrieved December 12, 2022.</ref> Stoddard was an outspoken white supremacist demagogue who invented the [[great replacement]] hoax along with conservationist [[Madison Grant]] and strongly opposed immigration.<ref>Chalmers, David M. (1987). [https://archive.org/details/hoodedamericanis00chal/page/270 Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan]. ''Internet Archive''. Retrieved December 12, 2022.</ref> | + | [[Lothrop Stoddard]], a prominent birth control activist from [[Massachusetts]], was invited to the board of directors of the American Birth Control League by Sanger. According to ''Hearst's International'' in 1923, there was "documentary evidence" that Stoddard was an [[Exalted Cyclops]] of the Ku Klux Klan.<ref>1923. [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hearst_s_International/MwLnAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=lothrop+stoddard+exalted+cyclops&pg=RA1-PA10&printsec=frontcover Hearst's International: Vol. 44], p. 10. ''Google Books''. Retrieved December 12, 2022.</ref> Stoddard was an outspoken white supremacist demagogue who invented the [[great replacement]] hoax along with conservationist Madison Grant and strongly opposed immigration, particularly among Eastern Europeans who he viewed as inferior.<ref>Chalmers, David M. (1987). [https://archive.org/details/hoodedamericanis00chal/page/270 Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan]. ''Internet Archive''. Retrieved December 12, 2022.</ref> |
| | ===Eugenics in Oregon, 1920s–40s=== | | ===Eugenics in Oregon, 1920s–40s=== |