University of Virginia Historical Collections at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

Eugenics Exhibit 4.4: Eugenics Logo

Eugenics Tree Logo. Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society.

From 1907 onward, at least 60,000 Americans were sterilized against their will. California and Virginia led the nation in the number of sterilizations performed per state. The legal basis for these forced sterilizations was the so-called science of eugenics.
photo credit: Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society.