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Ellen Swallow Richards

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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The Home Economics Movement and Eugenics

The eugenics movement in the United States was a racist, classist and ableist. The idea that humanity could improve itself through so called good breeding involved forcibly sterilizing disabled people or people of color. This led to hundreds of thousands of forced sterilizations as well as murders. Most of the most horrific outcomes occurred after Ellen Swallow Richards death.

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