It all started around the turn of the last century in England and the United States. Under the leadership of social engineers such as Francis Galton and Charles Davenport, the eugenics movement became a powerful social force that had a stranglehold on the American psyche by the 1930s. What were called "Fitter Families" contests were held in many places across the nation. Fitter families were families with little or no incidences of physical or mental disability. Their ethnic heritage also had to be intact. Racial intermarriages resulted in disqualification. Thus, fitter families were strictly Caucasian. At the Kansas Free Fair...