The original research of The Vermont Eugenics Survey of the 1920s and ’30s led to institutionalization and to the Vermont Legislature legalizing involuntary sterilization for so-called defective citizens in 1931.
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When interviewing Mercedes de Guardiola about her book “Vermont for the Vermonters: The History of Eugenics in the Green Mountain State,” I thanked her for having ruined my previous weekend.
The former “Mead Memorial Chapel” was renamed by the Middlebury College Board of Trustees. Now, the university has a chance to teach about its role in the eugenics movement.
Scholars and citizens of a federally recognized Abenaki First Nation based in Canada say there is no evidence that leaders of two New Hampshire groups have Abenaki ancestry.