Alice Hancock
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3 Jul
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And some of the people that she interacts with are avowed white supremacists.
People like Madison Grant, who writes a book called The Passing of the Great Race or the Racial Basis of European History, which appeared in 1916, and Lopthorpe Stoddard's 1921 publication, The Rising Tide of Colour Against White World Supremacy.
Okay.
Yeah, that's pretty clear cut.
This is unambiguous.
And these were the kinds of people that Sanger was interacting with.
And these were leading figures of the eugenics movement in the US that Sanger was more broadly trying to garner support for.
And at one point tries to organise a merger between a birth control organisation and the American Eugenics Society.
Meanwhile, Mari Stopes, still an avowed eugenicist, she'd opened the UK's first birth control clinic in 1921.
So there's huge intersections between the birth control movements that Stopes and Sanger are leading and eugenics movements in both the UK and US at this time.
Also around this time, it wasn't just Northern Hemisphere elites who were really into eugenics.
This is Eve Rees, a historian at La Trobe University.
including in Australia, where the Immigration Restriction Act of 1901, also known as the White Australia Policy, was designed to limit non-British migration.
In 1926, the organisation that would one day become Family Planning Australia was born.
It was first known as the Race Improvement Society and later the Racial Hygiene Association and its aims were to educate the public about venereal diseases and, you guessed it, eugenics.
The founding president of the Racial Hygiene Association, Ruby Rich, wasn't a scientist like Stopes or a nurse like Sanger.
She was a pianist, among other things.
But like Stopes and Sanger, Ruby Rich was a feminist and a eugenicist.
That said, Rich and the organisation did associate with eugenicists of the white supremacy variety.
For instance, at a fundraiser for the organisation in 1927, a judge made a speech that included this line.
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