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Distorted Realities: The Legacy of Buck v. Bell Supreme Court Case

How the Buck Family's Three Generations Became a Case for Sterilization Laws

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Dec 12, 2023
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in this tumult!”

Extract from The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Eugenics Makes the World go 'round.
Credit: Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division , Created: June 18, 1913. This illustration, by Lou…

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