Nazis used Virginia’s Eugenics law as a defense at Nuremberg - see Buck.vs Bell SCOTUS 1927 “At the Nuremberg Trials, Nazi defendants cited Buck v. Bell in their own defense. Virginia repealed the law in 1974 and in 2002 apologized to its victims.”
https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/buck-v-bell-1927/
https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/buck-v-bell-1927/
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It really boggles my mind that that term is still around.
1914 Race Betterment Foundation was a eugenics and racial hygiene organization founded in Battle Creek, MI by John Harvey Kellogg (of Kellogg’s cereal) due to his concerns about what he perceived as ‘race degeneracy.’