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Between 1907 and 1937, 32 American states passed eugenics laws requiring sterilization of citizens deemed to be misfits, such as the mentally infirm.  Oliver Wendell Holmes and all but one conservative Democratic Justice upheld such laws in a Supreme Court decision that included Holmes' offensive statement that "three generations of imbeciles are enough."  [[Buck v. Bell|Buck v. Bell]], 274 U.S. 200, 207 (1927).<ref>United States Supreme Court (May 2, 1927).  [http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=274&invol=200 "Buck v. Bell"].  Retrieved from ''FindLaw'' on September 24, 2014.</ref>  In fact, the third generation "imbecile" was very bright, but was declared by a eugenics "expert" as "supposed to be a mental defective," apparently without an examination.

Between 1907 and 1937, 32 American states passed eugenics laws requiring sterilization of citizens deemed to be misfits, such as the mentally infirm.  Oliver Wendell Holmes and all but one conservative Democratic Justice upheld such laws in a Supreme Court decision that included Holmes' offensive statement that "three generations of imbeciles are enough."  [[Buck v. Bell|Buck v. Bell]], 274 U.S. 200, 207 (1927).<ref>United States Supreme Court (May 2, 1927).  [http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=274&invol=200 "Buck v. Bell"].  Retrieved from ''FindLaw'' on September 24, 2014.</ref>  In fact, the third generation "imbecile" was very bright, but was declared by a eugenics "expert" as "supposed to be a mental defective," apparently without an examination.

Eugenics was taught as part of the evolution curriculum of many science classes in America in the early 1900s.  For example, it was featured in the textbook used in the famous Scopes trial in 1925.

Eugenics was taught as part of the evolution curriculum of many science classes in America in the early 1900s.  For example, it was featured in the textbook used in the famous [[Scopes Trial|Scopes trial]] in 1925.

"By 1928, the American Genetics Association boasted that there were 376 college courses devoted exclusively to eugenics.  High-school biology textbooks followed suit by the mid-1930s, with most containing material favorable to the idea of eugenical control of reproduction.  It would thus have been difficult to be an even moderately educated reader in the 1920s or 1930s and not have known, at least in general terms, about the claims of eugenics."<ref name="sm">''See'' "Science misapplied: the eugenics age revisited," ''Technology Review'', August-Sep 1996 (Vol. 99, No. 6), at p. 22(10), by Garland E. Allen.</ref>

"By 1928, the American Genetics Association boasted that there were 376 college courses devoted exclusively to eugenics.  High-school biology textbooks followed suit by the mid-1930s, with most containing material favorable to the idea of eugenical control of reproduction.  It would thus have been difficult to be an even moderately educated reader in the 1920s or 1930s and not have known, at least in general terms, about the claims of eugenics."<ref name="sm">''See'' "Science misapplied: the eugenics age revisited," ''Technology Review'', August-Sep 1996 (Vol. 99, No. 6), at p. 22(10), by Garland E. Allen.</ref>