Emma, Carrie, Vivian
The eugenicists were utopians, convinced that they were doing hard but necessary things. And that included making decisions about who could have children.
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Emma, Carrie, Vivian
In 1924, a 17-year-old girl was admitted to the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded. The superintendent of the colony classified her as "feeble-minded of the lowest grade, moron class." With that designation, this girl, Carrie Buck, was set on a path she didn't choose. What happened next laid the foundation for the forced sterilization of tens of thousands of people. This week, the story of the eugenics movement and one of the most tragic social experiments in American history.