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Emma, Carrie, Vivian
Podcast |
Hidden Brain
Publisher |
Hidden Brain
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
Arts
Performing Arts
Science
Social Sciences
Publication Date |
Apr 24, 2018
Episode Duration |
00:39:54

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.

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