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Model legislation, sterilize more people if their genes aren't up to it. johnson became chair of the committee in 1919. he hired this chief eugenicist for the committee in 1921. by 1922 they were publicly ranking the genetic failings of americans by their national origin. by two years after that, 1924, they had achieved what they were aiming at. by 1924, wilson was gone, calvin coolidge was in and signed a anti-immigration bill. it was jauld the johnson reed immigration. it was a eugenics bill. it was a bill to protect america from a stream of alien blood. it was a bill to stop american civili...