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buck v. bell
History isn't always pretty
Published on
Mar 28th, 2002
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In 1927, Charlottesville-born Carrie Buck received a dubious honor by becoming the first person sterilized under Virginia’s infamous eugenics laws which had been enacted three years earlier. Now,...
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