David Starr Jordan and the American Eugenics Movement have had a lasting and harmful legacies on oppressed peoples. Jordan was at the center of the movement that fought for the limiting of immigration based on race, scientific racist hierarchies, and sterilization of thousands, all in the name of eugenics. Jordan was not simply a man of his time. Jordan helped make his time. Using his influence as Stanford's president, Jordan aided the spread of eugenic thought and is responsible in no small part for the harm it has caused to millions of people.

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As of 2020, Jordan Hall has been unnamed.