TALK ON EUGENICS

Join the Mobile Medical Museum Thursday, Sept. 30 at 6 p.m. for “Alabama’s Lengthening Chain”: The Intersection of Citizenship, Medicine, and Law in Dr. William D. Partlow’s Commitment to Eugenics in Alabama 1901-1935," a presentation by Dr. Susan Ashmore, Charles Howard Candler Professor of History at Oxford College of Emory University. In September 1919, the Alabama legislature passed a law creating "a Home and School for mental deficients or inferiors" that brought Alabama in line with the rest of the nation. Alabama had been the only state without such an institution, and the new law codified the eugenics ideas that Dr. Partlow and other doctors across Alabama had been promoting since the turn of the century. This FREE event is co-hosted by the Mobile Medical Museum and Alabama Contemporary Art Center, in conjunction with this collaborative exhibition, "Different/Fit: Eugenics in Alabama, 1919- 1935." The event is planned as a virtual presentation on, to register click here https://www.eventbrite.com/e/alabamas-lengthening-chaintickets-166567232075?fbclid=IwAR1WpINfDF9gwAsbnM_bQiBoweKHZtLixAwDFw_WZ1DHxqAzB12WR0v50.