A topic that stuck out to me from the reading came from chapter 7. This chapter goes into depth on the specific restrictions and strategies Richmond politicians placed on African Americans to limit their rights.  A specific restriction was on marriage and miscegenation.  In this section of the chapter, Campbell reference the influence of the eugenics movement in the 1920’s and the impact it had on African Americans as well as other groups. This section struck out to me before the only other time I’ve heard of eugenics was during readings or discussion of the Nazi’s who believed in eugenics and therefore believed the Aryan race was superior over all other races especially the Jewish race.  The fact that there was somewhere in America that had been influenced by this movement really goes to show the amount of hate and divide that was present in the country.

In footnotes 297 and 298 Campbell used information out of the book “Managing White Supremacy”.  In one of the chapters of this book, the author discusses the Anglo Saxon Club and their push of eugenics in politics and the media.  In this source, I learned about the origin of the eugenics movement, how it started in Amnerica, the extent to which it was favored and proposed as well as the effects that resulted from the eugenics movement.

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