Jackson Laboratory To Remove Name Of Founder And Eugenicist From Conference Center

July 21, 2020

The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor has announced that it will remove the name of founder C.C. Little from its conference center.

Little was a longtime champion of eugenics, a belief that birth control, and even sterilization, could be used to selectively improve the genetic stock of populations. Little was not alone — eugenics was once widely influential in the United States and Europe, and it influenced the thinking of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, inventor Alexander Graham Bell and NAACP Co-founder W.E.B. Du Bois.

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