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WHEN: Timeline of Eugenics Activities
- 1979 Virginia repeals laws allowing forcible sterilization
- 1975 Sweden abandons sterilization laws
- 1933 Nazi euthanasia program
- 1933 Nazi sterilization laws
- 1931 27 US states have sterilization laws
- 1923 American Eugenics Society
- 1920s Fitter Family Contests
- 1911 Better Baby contest
- 1910- ERO
- 1907 1st state sterilization law- US
- 1907 British Eugenics Ed. Society
- 1905 German Race Hygiene Society
- 1883 Sir Francis Galton introduces term
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