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- Imbeciles : the Supreme Court, American eugenics, and the sterilization of Carrie Buck / by Cohen, Adam(Adam Seth),author.(CARDINAL)660759;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-382) and index."One of America's great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court's infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of "undesirable" citizens the law of the land. New York Times bestselling author Adam Cohen tells the story in Imbeciles of one of the darkest moments in the American legal tradition: the Supreme Court's decision to champion eugenic sterilization for the greater good of the country. In 1927, when the nation was caught up in eugenic fervor, the justices allowed Virginia to sterilize Carrie Buck, a perfectly normal young woman, for being an "imbecile." It is a story with many villains, from the superintendent of the Dickensian Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded who chose Carrie for sterilization to the former Missouri agriculture professor and Nazi sympathizer who was the nation's leading advocate for eugenic sterilization. But the most troubling actors of all were the eight Supreme Court justices who were in the majority--including William Howard Taft, the former president; Louis Brandeis, the legendary progressive; and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., America's most esteemed justice, who wrote the decision urging the nation to embark on a program of mass eugenic sterilization"--1270LAccelerated Reader AR- Subjects: Buck, Carrie, 1906-1983; Involuntary sterilization; Eugenics; Involuntary sterilization;
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- Keith's typescript with additions by Vertical Files -- Family Files.;
One page from a book apparently by Dr. A. L. Keith typed and with additions by John K. Broyles of Clinton, TNBriles Family FilePage & column: 173- Subjects: Briles, Solomon.; Briles, Charity Byrns.; Briles, Hugh McCain.; Briles, Polly Ann Sawyer.; Briles, Eunice Farlow.; Dougan, Catherine Briles.; Dougan, Clark.; Briles, Micajah.; Briles, Delcena Fry.; Briles, John.; Briles, Anise.; Briles, Noah.; Briles, Benjamin Franklin.; Briles, Catherine Robbins.; Briles, Branson.; Briles, Alfred.; Gaddis, William.; Gaddis, Charity Briles.; Briles, Annice Rush.; Rush, Ninevah.; Briles, Ninevah Rush.; Briles, Emily Miller.; Robbins, Mary Briles.; Robbins, George.; Briles, Henry.; Robbins, Elizabeth R. Briles.; Briles, John Hill.; Briles, Amanda Lambert.; Briles, Joseph Lafayette.; Laughlin, Elizabeth Briles.; Laughlin, William.; Farlow, Elizabeth Laughlin.; Farlow, Absalom.; Laughlin, Nancy Laughlin.; Laughlin, Franklin.; Sawyer, William.; Sawyer, Susanna Laughlin.; Laughlin, Seth.; Laughlin, Sarah Farlow.; Laughlin, Shubal G.; Laughlin, Amanda J. Beckerdite.; Ward, Rachel Laughlin.; Ward, Joseph Lindsay.;
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