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The American Eugenics Party (AEP) was a right-wing organization that used eugenics and scientific racism to justify its beliefs and political platform. Founded in Los Angeles, California in the 1960s, AEP meetings were held in Long Beach and Santa Barbara. Members of the party included Samuel Andrisani, primary spokesperson and Education Manager; John S. Vanders, public relations manager; and Robert Henderon, chairman of the race relations committee.
Tenets of the AEP's platform included the importance of racial purity, anti-immigration legislation, the intention to unite all "Caucasian stocks" to fight against the "non-Caucasian genetic threat", limiting government positions to those who pass an AEP test, "incentive economics", limited roles for women, neutrality on the concept of God, access to education based on "hereditary mental ability", limiting media on "dysgenic acts", removing "white defectives" (white people who are not eugenicists) from political positions, eliminating violence-type sports such as boxing, enacting anti-vice laws, enacting environmental legislation, and ensuring only "eugenic marriages" (marriages in which the couple are matched in terms of race, intellect, etc.).
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Copy of an item of correspondence to the National States Right Party (NSRP) from the American Eugenics Party (AEP). The correspondence was published and distributed by the AEP. The letter is in response to an article in the publication "the thunderbolt" on the Arab-Israeli conflict. In spite of their other prejudices, the AEP was not anti-Semitic and was attempting to sway the NSRP to rethink their stance on Jews for the sake of racial unity. The AEP attempts to make the case that "Arabs" (Arabic speaking countries in the Middle East) are socialist, and more left wing than Israel. There is also mention made as to whether Arabic people can be considered Caucasian, although it is noted that Jewish people are. The second point of the AEP is an argument that Soviet states to do not support Israel as not all Jewish populations are in unity. There is some distinction here made between supporting Jewish people vs supporting Zionism. The last point accuses the NSRP of distorting facts relating to the mental health of Jewish people. The AEP states that Jewish people are less likely to have mental health illnesses and that the NSRP left out information regarding the prevalence of Tay-Sachs among Jewish people.
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Purchased in 2025 from David Anthem, Bookseller.
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The National States Rights Party was a white supremacist political party founded in Tennessee in 1958. The party was founded on racism, anti-Semitism and a belief that states should have the ability to decide their own civil rights related laws. The organization was connected with the Klu Klux Klan and Minutemen. The part had officially disbanded by 1987.
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Materials in this collection express racist, sexist and ableist views rooted in eugenics, the belief that the genetic makeup of the human population can be improved by limiting the ability of people deemed inferior from reproducing. There are derogatory statements and depictions throughout these publications that may be deeply upsetting and unsettling. These materials are being shared and maintained as they were created in keeping with Special Collections & Archives’ approach to language in archival descriptions, which prioritizes speaking openly about and clearly identifying problematic, harmful, and otherwise offensive records in the department’s holdings. This approach, while potentially upsetting, allows for the critical assessment and questioning of historical material by contemporary researchers.
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Created by JB Nov. 2025
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