Join us on Thursday March 30 at 6:30pm via Zoom for a presentation of curricula and lesson plans developed by students and teachers participating in the Teaching about the Eugenics Movement in Connecticut: Racism and Resistance working group.

For two months, a group of K-12 educators and high school students have learned about the history of Eugenics research and advocacy at Yale and in Connecticut through a working group convened by the Black and Latino History Project.

In the 1920s and 1930s, Yale University and Connecticut became international centers of Eugenics research, policy advocacy, and public education. From New Haven, leaders of the American Eugenics Society advocated for the sterilization, incarceration, exclusion and denigration of huge swaths of the public

Their work also faced continued resistance from a wide range of communities, whose legacies we celebrate today in movements for Black Freedom, immigrant power, LGBTQ rights, affirming mental health care, and many others.

The working group has been facilitated by Professor Daniel Martinez HoSang of Yale, Yale undergraduate researcher Dora Guo, Professor Bethsaida Nieves of UConn, and Connecticut historian and social studies educator Eve Galanis.

Register in advance here.