Eugenics, Immigration Restriction, and the Birth Control Movements

Abstract

This chapter is one of 29 essays that discusses how academics, then and now, have addressed the political, economic, diplomatic, cultural, ethnic, and social history of the presidents of the Republican Era of 1921-1933 - Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover. The eugenics, birth control and immigration restriction movements, discussed in this chapter, were intertwined. The complete book is available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118834510