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67.
See University of Wisconsin, “Help Files-Genealogical Research Using U.S. Census Data,” at
www.uwm.edu
. See U.S. Department of Commerce, “1860 Census: Instructions to the Marshals”at
www.ipums.umn.edu
as compared to U.S. Department of Commerce, “1870 Census: Instructions to the Marshals” at
www.ipums.umn.edu
as compared to U.S. Department of Commerce, “1880 Census: Instructions to the Marshals” at
www.ipums.umn.edu
as compared to U.S. Department of Commerce, “1890 Census: Instructions to the Marshals” at
www.ipums.umn.edu
as compared to U.S. Department of Commerce, “1900 Census: Instructions to the Marshals” at
www.ipums.umn.edu
as compared to U.S. Department of Commerce, “1910 Census: Instructions to the Marshals” at
www.ipurns.umn.edu
. See “The Most Prolific People in the United States,”
Eugenical News
Vol. XXIII (1938), pp. 29-31. See “American Indians Made Citizens,”
Eugenical News
Vol. IX (1924), p. 73. See Library of Congress, “Today in History,” at memory.loc.gov.
68.
Plecker to Davis, 4 October 1924. Department of Commerce, “U.S. Census Estimate of Indians in Virginia, Vol. Ill, 1920 Population,” n.d.: UVA Library 7284A Powell Papers, Box 56, Folder 1921. See Plecker to Adams, 11 December 1924.
69.
Plecker to Davis, 4 October 1924.
70.
Reclaiming our Heritage,
prod. Sharon Bryant, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 1997, videocassette. Estabrook and McDougle, p. 145.
71.
Plecker to Davis, 4 October 1924. “Abstracts of Papers at 1934 ERA Meeting,”
Eugenical News,
Vol. XX (1935), p. 25.
72.
Plecker to W. H. Clark, 29 July 1924.
73.
Letter, Walter A. Plecker to A. P. Bohannon, 3 May 1938: UVA Library 7284A Powell Papers, Box 56, Folder 1938 #4.
74.
Letter, Walter A. Plecker to R. S. Major, 28 August 1942: UVA Library 7284A Powell Papers, Box 56, Folder 1942 #4.
75.
Letter, Walter A. Plecker to William E. Bradby, 2 February 1942: UVA Library 7284A Powell Papers, Box 56, Folder 1942 #4.
76.
Estabrook and McDougle, p. 15. See Plecker to Davis, 4 October 1924.
77.
“Mongrel Virginians,”
Eugenical News
Vol. XI (1926), p. 70. The Wilkins & Wilkins Company, “Mongrel Virginians,” (Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Company, circa 1926): Truman E-2-2. Estabrook and McDougle, pp. 3,8. See Estabrook and McDougle, pp. 13, 177.
78.
Estabrook and McDougle, pp. 13,14.
79.
Estabrook and McDougle, pp. 199-200.
80.
Estabrook and McDougle, p. 201.
81.
Estabrook and McDougle, p. 202.
82.
Smith, pp. 86, 87. “Mongrel Virginians,”
Eugenical News,
p. 70.
83.
Smith, pp. 95, 96. “Petition For Mandamus,”
Sorrells v. A. T. Shields, Clerk
(1924): UVA Library 7284A Powell Papers, Box 56, Folder 1924#2.
84.
Smith, p. 98.
85.
“Petition For Mandamus.” Letter, Leon H. Bazile to John Powell, 26 November 1924: UVA Library 7284A Powell Papers, Box 56, Folder 1924#2.
86.
Letter, Bazile to Powell, 26 November 1924. Smith, p. 75. Sherman, pp. 81, 85.
87.
Letter, Walter A. Plecker to the Virginia Department of Health, 27 May 1946: UVA Library 7284A Powell Papers, Box 56, Folder 1944-46. Letter, Walter A. Plecker to Dr. I. C. Riggin, 27 May 1946: UVA Library 7284A Powell Papers, Box 56, Folder 1944-46. See Plecker,
Virginia’s Vanished Race.
CHAPTER TEN
1.
Letter, John C. Merriam to Charles B. Davenport, 20 June 1923: CIW Genetics: Eugenics Record Office Misc. Correspondence 2 of 2.
2.
See Fourth Report of the Committee on Selective lnunigration of the American Eugenics Society, memorandum, circa July 1929: Truman C-4-4:6. 2. US Department of Commerce,
Historical Statistics of the United Stares, Colonial Times to 1970,
(Washington DC: US Department of Commerce, 1976).
3.
US Department of Commerce.
4.
The National Park Service, “Statue of Liberty: Museum Exhibits,” at
www.nps.gov
. Emma Lazarus, “The New Colossus.”
5.
Margo J. Anderson,
The American Census
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988), pp. 132,133. Paul Burnett, “The Red Scare,” at
www.law.umkc.edu
.
6.
Anderson, pp. 134, 139.
7.
Anti-Defamation League, “Extremism in America: Ku Klux Klan,” at
www.adl.org
. Burnett John Higham,
Strangers in the Land
(New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1955), pp 264-265. William M. Tuttle, Jr.,
Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of
 
1919
(New York, NY: Atheneum, 1970), pp 16-20,22-23. Anderson, p. 133.
8.
Robert DeC. Ward, “Our Immigtation Laws From the Viewpoint of National Eugenics,”
National Geographic,
January 1912: Truman C-4-2: 7. Letter, Irving Fisher to Charles B. Davenport, 2 March 1912: APS BD27 Fisher #7. Letter, Charles B. Davenport to Irving Fisher, 4 March 1912: APS BD27 Fisher #7.
9.
Biographical Directory of the U.
S.
Congress,
s.v. Albert Johnson at
www.bioguide.congress.gov
. City of Hiawatha Home Page at
www.cityofhiawatha.org
. City of Atchison Visitor Information at
www.atchisonkansas.net
.
10.
“Course Outline of Eugenics,” 1933, p. 14: Truman E-2-2:17. Harry H. Laughlin, “A Bill,” n.p., circa 1917: Truman C-2-4:5. Letter, Prescott F. Hall to Charles B. Davenport, 1 October 1920: APS B:D 27.
11.
Prescott F. Hall, “Immigration Restrictions and World Eugenics,”
Journal of Heredity
Vol. X, No.3 (March, 1919), p. 126.
12.
Letters, Albert Johnson to Madison Grant, 19 March 1924 and Madison Grant to Albert Johnson, 12 December 1923 as cited by Hassencahl, p. 209. Letter, Madison Grant to Charles B. Davenport, 24 January 1921 :APS B:D 27 - Grant, Madison #4. Letter, Madison Grant to John C. Merriam, 26 November 1924:APS B:D 27 - Grant, Madison #4. Letter, Charles B. Davenport to Madison Grant, 17 March 1921 :APS B:D 27 - Grant, Madison #4. Letter, Madison Grant to Charles B. Davenport, 29 January 1921:APS B:D 27 -Grant, Madison #4. Letter, Charles B. Davenport to Madison Grant, 27 November 1920:APS B:D 27 - Grant, Madison #4. Letter, Charles B. Davenport to Madison Grant, 6 January 1921 :APS B:D 27 - Grant, Madison #4. Martha Ragsdale, “The National Origins Plan of Immigration Restriction,” (Nashville: Vanderbilt University) unpublished manuscript, p. 140: PRA#18.
13.
See Harry H. Laughlin,
Biological Aspects of Immigration:
CSHL: Harry H. Laughlin Reprints.
14.
Laughlin, pp. 4-5, 6,13, 18.
15.
Laughlin, pp. 3,4,21.
16.
Laughlin, pp. 4, 5.
17.
Laughlin, pp. 23-26.
18.
Memorandum, Harry H. Laughlin to John C. Merriam, 17 October 1922: Truman C-4-5:6. “Sample of Schedule used in the Melting Pot Survey,” attachment to Harry H. Laughlin, “Definite Proposal for a New and More Thorough Study of Crime Among Aliens and the Descendants of Recent Immigtants in American Criminalistic Institutions,” circa 1921: C-4-5:1O. Letter, Harry H. Laughlin to Albert Johnson, 30 December 1924: Truman C-2-4:5.
19.
“Immigration Limits for the Year Ending July 1,
1922,”
Eugenical News
Vol. VI (1921). Robert DeCourcey Ward, “lnunigration and the Three Per Cent Restrictive Law,”
Journal of Heredity
Vol. XII No.7 (August-September 1921), pp. 319-32 5. “First Report of the Committee on Selective lnunigtation of the Eugenics Committee of the United States of America,” memorandwn, circa 1924: Truman C-4-4:3. Harry H. Laughlin, “Scientific Investigations by the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization of the House of Representatives: Abstract of Studies Made for the Committee,” memorandum, circa May 1922: Truman C-2-4:5.
20.
Harry H. Laughlin,
Classification Standards to be Followed in Preparing Data for the Schedule “Racial and Diagnostic Records of Inmates of State Institutions,
“ (Washingron, DC: Government Printing Office, 1922), pp. 4, 7: Truman C-4-6: 16. Letter, Harry H. Laughlin to Albert Johnson, circa 1922: Truman C-2-4:5.
21.
“Report of Harry H. Laughlin for the Ten Months September 1, 1923 - June 30, 1924,” memorandum, circa 1924, p. 3: C-2-3:3. “Report of Harry H. Laughlin for the Year Ending September 1, 1923,” Memorandum circa 1923: Truman C-2-5:15. House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization,
Statement of
Dr.
Harry
H.
Laughlin,
67th Cong., #3,d sess., 21 November 1922, p. 734.
22.
House Committee,
Statement of Dr. Harry H. Laughlin,
21 November 1922, pp. 756, 760.
23.
House Committee,
Statement of
Dr.
Harry
H.
Laughlin,
21 November 1922, pp. 725, 752, 759.
24.
“Biological Research in Immigration,” memorandum, circa 1920: Truman C-2-4:5. Letter, Harry H. Laughlin to Frank Babbott, 18 February 1922: Truman C-4-3:5. Letter, Harry H. Laughlin to Frank Babbott, 9 July 1925: Truman C-4-3:5. Davenport to Grant, 17 March 1921. Harry H. Laughlin,
Immigration and Conquest: A Report of The Special Committee on Immigration and Naturalization of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York
(n.p., 1939), p. 8.
25.
“First Report of the Committee on Selective Immigration of the Eugenics Committee of the United States of America,” draft copy, circa 1924: Truman C-4-4:3. “Eugenics Committee of the United States of America,” memorandum, circa 1924: APS 576.06 AM3 AES Eugenics Committee of USA Documents.
26.
“First Report of the Committee on Selective Immigration,” p. 2.
27.
“First Report of the Committee on Selective Immigration,” pp. 2, 3,4.
28.
“Annual Meeting of the Eugenics Research Association,”
Eugenical News
Vol. VIll (1923), p. 53. Eugenics Research Association,
Active Membership Accession List
(Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Eugenics Research Association, 1922): Truman, ERA Membership Records. US Department of Labor, “Portraits: James J. Davis,” at
www.dol.gov
. Merriam to Davenport, 20 June 1923.
29.
Merriam to Davenport, 20 June 1923.
30.
Merriam to Davenport, 20 June 1923. Letter, Harry H. Laughlin to Charles B. Davenport, 26 November 1923: Truman C-2-6:17.
31.
Merriam to Davenport, 20 June 1923.
32.
Memorandum, Charles B. Davenport to Harry H. Laughlin, 26 June 1923: Truman C-4-3:9.
33.
Certificate of Appointment: Mark Laughlin Collection as cited by Hassencahl, p. 191. See Harry H. Laughlin, “Report of Harry H. Laughlin for the Year Ending September 1, 1923.”
34.
Laughlin to Johnson, circa 1922, p. 9.
35.
“Personals,”
Eugenical News
Vol. VIll (1923), p. 94. Letter, Harry H. Laughlin to Dr. Albert Govaerts, 17 March 1923: Truman C-4-6: 19. Letter, Harry H. Laughlin to Charles B. Davenport, 1 October 1923: Truman D-2 -6:17.
36.
Laughlin to Davenport, 1 October 1923. Letter, Harry. H. Laughlin to Charles B. Davenport, 22 November 1923: Truman C-2-6:17. “Report of Harry H. Laughlin for the Ten Months September 1, 1923 - June 30, 1924.” Letter, Harry H. Laughlin to Judge Harry Olson, 12 October 1923: Truman D-2-3:6.
37.
Laughlin to Olson, 12 October 1923.
38.
“Report of Harry H. Laughlin for the Ten Months September 1, 1923 - June 30, 1924,” p. 2. “Dr. Albert Govaerts of Belgium,”
Eugenical News
Vol. VII (1922), p. 64. Laughlin to Davenport, 22 November 1923. Laughlin to Davenport, 26 November 1923.
39.
“Report of Harry H. Laughlin for the Ten Months September 1, 1923 - June 30, 1924,” p. 3. Laughlin to Davenport, 22 November 1923.
40.
“Report of Harry H. Laughlin for the Ten Months September 1, 1923 - June 30, 1924,” p. 2. Laughlin to Davenport, 22 November 1923. Laughlin to Davenport, 26 November 1923.
41.
“Report of Harry H. Laughlin for the Ten Months September 1,1923 - June 30,1924,” pp. 2, 3. Laughlin to Davenport, 22 November 1923. Laughlin to Davenport, 26 November 1923. Laughlin to Davenport, 1 October 1923.
42.
Laughlin to Davenport, 26 November 1923.
43.
Laughlin to Davenport, 26 November 1923. Harry H. Laughlin, “Interdepartmental Authority,” memorandum circa December 1923: Truman D-4-3:13.
44.
Laughlin, “Interdepartmental Authority.”
45.
“Report of Harry H. Laughlin for the Ten Months September 1, 1923 - June 30, 1924,” pp. 1, 6. Laughlin to Davenport, 1 October 1923.
46.
“Report of Harry H. Laughlin for the Year Ending September 1,1923.” Laughlin to Davenport, 22 November 1923.
47.
Laughlin to Davenport, 22 November 1923. Letter, Charles B. Davenport to Harry H. Laughlin, 21 December 1923: Truman C-2-6:17.
48.
Laughlin to Davenport, 26 November 1923.
49.
Laughlin to Davenport, 22 November 1923.
50.
Davenport to Laughlin, 21 December 1923.
51.
“Statement of Harry H. Laughlin for the Ten Months September 1, 1923 - June 30,1924,” p. 1. “Report of the Committee on Selective Immigration of the Eugenics Committee of the United States of America,”
Eugenical News
Vol. IX (I 924}, pp. 21-24.
52.
“Secretary Davis on Immigration,”
Eugenical News
Vol. IX (l924), p. 37.
53.
House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization,
Statement of
Dr.
Harry H. Loughlin,
68th Cong., 1st sess., 8 March 1924, pp. 1279,1281,1283,1294,1295.
54.
House Committee,
Statement of
Dr.
Harry H. Loughlin,
8 March 1924, pp. 1311, 1322, 1323, 1340.
55.
House Committee,
Statement of
Dr.
Harry H. Loughlin,
8 March 1924, p. 1300.
56.
“Memorandum and Outline of Tentative Working Agreement Between the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the State Department of the Federal Government in Reference to Collaboration in the Collection of First-Hand Data on Immigration at its Sources,” memorandum, circa June 1924: Truman C-4-3:9. Letter, W. M. Gilbert to Harry H. Laughlin,
11
September 1924: Truman C-4-3:9.
57.
“Memorandum and Outline of Tentative Working Agreement Between the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the State Department.” “Report of Harry H. Laughlin for the Ten Months September 1, 1923 -June 30, 1924,” p. 4. “The Several Filterings of the Immigrant Stream Directed Toward the United States,” attachment to Letter, Harry H. Laughlin to Albert Johnson, 30 December 1924: Truman C-2-4:5.
58.
“Memorandum and Outline of Tentative Working Agreement Between the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the State Department” p. 3. See Ezekiel Cheever,
School Issues
(Baltimore: Warwick & York, Inc., 1924): CIW Genetics: Eugenics Record Office Misc. Correspondence 2 of 2.
59.
See Cheever.
60.
Cheever, pp 28-29.
61.
Cheever, p 38.
62.
Cheever, pp 41, 42-43.
63.
Cheever, p 44.
64.
Cheever, p 19.
65.
Letter, Charles B. Davenport to Lewellys F. Barker, 18 April 1924: CIW Genetics: Eugenics Record Office Misc. Correspondence 2 of 2. Letter, Robert DeC. Ward to Harry H. Laughlin, 20 March 1924: Truman C-4-1 :8. Letter, Harry H. Laughlin to Robert DeC. Ward, 1 April 1924: Truman C-4-1:8
66.
Davenport to Barker, 18 April 1924.
67.
US Department of Justice, “Immigration Act of May 26, 1924 (43 Statutes-at-Large 153),” at
www.ins.usdoj.gov
. Ragsdale, p. 17. Anderson, p. 146.
68.
Anderson, pp. 147, 149. Ragsdale, p. 42.
69.
Alfred P. Schultz,
Race or Mongrel
(Boston: L. C. Page and Company, 1908) as cited by Ragsdale, p. 11.

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