Label:
Carrie Buck's wedding photograph, audio by Paul Lombardo
Description:
DNAi location:
Chronicle>Trial of Carrie Buck>epilogue
Carrie Buck sent this photo, taken on her wedding day in 1933, to Dr. Bell, still at the Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded. She remained married to Mr. Eagle, shown here in the wedding picture, for 25 years. Though it was claimed that she was unstable, morally uninhibited, and feebleminded, this first marriage lasted a quarter of a century until the death of her spouse.
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Concepts precesses:
eugenics, Buck vs. Bell, sterilization
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