Eugenics Funding Map: Charitable Foundations and Governments That Financed Racial Science

In 1910, a widow signed a check that would help write the darkest legal precedent in American history.She did not know that. Neither did the biologist who cashed it, the banker who later matched it, or the trustees of some of the most respected charitable institutions in the country who kept the money flowing for the next three decades. They believed they were funding progress. What they were actu...