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Bookmark or Share- “Three Generations of Imbeciles are Enough” — The Case of Buck v. Bell ...The supposed “imbecile” in question was Carrie Buck, by then a 21-year-old woman from Charlottesville, Virginia. At the age of 17, Carrie Buck became pregnant, which was later reported to have been the result of rape, allegedly by a relative of her foster parents.
- The Supreme Court Ruling That Led To 70,000 Forced SterilizationsThe case, known as Buck v. Bell, centered on a young woman named Carrie Buck, whom the state of Virginia had deemed to be "feebleminded." Author Adam Cohen tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross that...
- The Eugenics Movement And Forced Sterilization : NPRThis is the story of Carrie Buck, and three generations of her very small family: Emma, Carrie and Vivian. A grandmother, a mother and a child who, by virtue of their poverty and some very bad...
- Carrie Buck (1906–1983) - Encyclopedia VirginiaCarrie Buck was the first person involuntarily sterilized under Virginia’s eugenics laws. In 1920 her mother was diagnosed as feebleminded—a diagnosis based less on a medical finding than on the doctors’ perception of her sexual behavior—and committed to the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded in Lynchburg.
- Carrie Buck - WikipediaCarrie Elizabeth Buck (July 3, 1906 – January 28, 1983) [1] was the plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell, after having been ordered to undergo compulsory sterilization for purportedly being "feeble-minded" by her foster parents after their nephew raped and impregnated her.
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