Not Even Past
Not Even Past
Encyclopedia Virginia
Her Body Was Not Her Own
24 minutes Posted Dec 16, 2017 at 12:00 am.
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Carrie Buck was the plaintiff in the notorious Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell (1927) that authorized Buck’s forced sterilization. Producer Miranda Bennett interviews the scholar Paul Lombardo and visits the former Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded in Lynchburg. Read more here: https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Buck_Carrie_Elizabeth_1906-1983