Victim of America's Dark Eugenics Era - The Tragic Life of Carrie Buck

In 1927 one woman’s fate decided the future of thousands. She was labeled “feeble-minded”locked away and put on trial for her future. But recent research reveals that almost everything said about Carrie Buck was a lie—carefully crafted to push a sinister agenda.”

0:00 - Intro

0:29  - Chatty Cathy

1:19 - Eugenics in the United States

3:01 - Carrie’s Early Life

7:26 - Forced Sterilization

10:07 - Harry Laughlin

11:34 - The Trial

15:39 - Sterilization & Life going forward

21:01 - Doris Buck 

23:07 - Three Generations, No Imbeciles

24:11 - Lasting Effects

Sources:

1939: https://time.com/archive/6760602/medicine-feeble-minded-love/ 

https://origins.osu.edu/read/sterilization-carrie-buck 

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/eugenics-finding-carrie-buck/ 

https://kera.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/amex32ec-soc-buckvbell/buck-v-bell-and-eugenics-american-experience/  

https://www.press.jhu.edu/newsroom/just-lucky?srsltid=AfmBOooFCdt5QfnmfixNPb1qfqHxInr7HV4kszJEf58cpC4ha6I98Usf 

Book (I have not read, but looks intriguing!): https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12262/three-generations-no-imbeciles 

https://www.translationalres.com/article/S0022-2143(01)24354-6/fulltext 

https://exhibits.hsl.virginia.edu/eugenics/3-buckvbell/index.html