Question

What was Harry Laughlin’s work background and what policies did he promote concerning the Eugenics programs

Answer 1

Harry Laughlin’s was asked by Charles Davenport to move to Long Island, New York, to serve as the superintendent of his new research office. Prior to his appointment, he worked as a high school teacher and principal.

Harry Laughlin's worked keenly for the proliferation of compulsory sterilization legislation in the United States. According to this legislation, the "unfit" members of the population were to be sterilized. He drafted a model law for compulsory sterilization and to remove the difficulties arising in its implementation in his 1922 study of American sterilization policy, Eugenical Sterilization in the United States. As per this document; the feeble-minded, the insane, criminals, epileptics, alcoholics, blind persons, deaf persons, deformed persons, and indigent persons were to be included as subjects for eugenic sterilization.