The pro-eugenics Medical Review of Reviews hired four vagrants to demonstrate on Wall Street in 1915. The picture’s original caption said the signs the men were paid to carry asked “some very pertinent questions.” Some of the signs read, “Would the prisons and asylums be filled if my kind had no children?” and “I can’t read this sign. By what right I have children?”
Today In #LaborHistory 3/26/1910: Congress amended Immigration Act of 1907 to bar “paupers, anarchists, criminals & the diseased.” $5 million gold card anyone? #workingclass #immigration #eugenics #anarchism #racism #xenophobia #ableism #mentalhealth #poverty #prison #poverty #trump