The International Eugenics Congresses consisted of three scientific meetings held in London, England, in 1912 and at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, New York, in 1921 and 1932. Leonard Darwin, son of Charles Darwin, Henry Fairfield Osborn, the President of the American Museum of Natural History, and Charles Benedict Davenport, founder of the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York City presided over the Congresses. Scientists presented research in genetics and shared ideas for putting eugenics into practice, such as preventing people they considered inferior from reproducing through forced sterilization. The three International Eugenics Congresses increased scientific and public support of the eugenics movement in the early twentieth century, and established organizations to pursue eugenics agendas that contributed to the forced sterilization of hundreds of thousands of people in the US and Nazi Germany.
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- The International Eugenics Congresses (1912–1932)
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- Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935
- American Eugenics Society
- Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944
- Laughlin, Harry Hamilton, 1880-1943
- International Congress of Eugenics
- Galton, Francis, 1822-1911
- Grant, Madison, 1865-1937
- American Museum of Natural History
- Eugenics Record Office
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- Darwin, Leonard, 1850-1943
- Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965
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- Little, Clarence C. (Clarence Cook), 1888-1971
- Harriman, Mary Williamson, 1851-1932
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