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California Gov Gavin Newsom Signs Bill for Survivors of Decades-Long Eugenics-Based Sterilization Program to Receive Reparations

California Gov Gavin Newsom Signs Bill for Survivors of Decades-Long Eugenics-Based Sterilization Program to Receive Reparations
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Buck v Bell (1927) – Encyclopedia Virginia

Buck v. Bell was Carrie Elizabeth Buck. Some Buildings at the Virginia Colony for Feeble-Minded and Epileptics.Born on July 2, 1906, in Charlottesville, she was raised by foster parents John and Alice Dobbs from the age of three. In 1920, the authorities deemed Buck’s biological mother, Emma Adeline Harlowe Buck, a “low grade moron” and promiscuous for having a child out of wedlock. They committed her to the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded in Madison Heights, near Lynchburg. In 1923, Carrie Buck became pregnant, by her account as the result of rape committed by Clarence Garland, the Dobbs’s nephew. Believing that the pregnancy was evidence of promiscuity and thus of feeblemindedness, John and Alice Dobbs petitioned a court in Charlottesville to have Buck committed, which it did on January 23, 1924. She remained in Charlottesville with another foster family until the birth of her child, Vivian Alice Elaine Buck, on March 28, 1924. Then, with the D

Well Born Science: Assessing the Legacy of Eugenics in America

Renowned Professor Comes (Virtually) to Library of the Chathams Professor Paul Lombardo will present a virtual lecture on the legacy of Eugenics in America.  More than 100 laws were passed in the US during the 20th Century, both federal and state, that reflected ideas associated with the eugenics movement.  This presentation will survey them with an analysis of the popular beliefs people associated with eugenics” in the first two decades of the 20th Century, including Better Baby and Fitter Family contests and the proliferation of commercial advertising that highlighted eugenic ideas.  Many of these were absorbed into the country s political and legal culture, including sterilization laws for people deemed feebleminded  or socially inadequate.  

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