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Though she had normal intelligence, Carrie Buck was labeled "feebleminded" because she was young, poor, female and powerless. Her child was taken away and she was sterilized. Her landmark Supreme Court case, which led to the sterilization of 50,000 Americans and was cited as the precedent for the Nazi race hygiene program, is still making headlines today.Smith, J. David is the author of 'Sterilization of Carrie Buck Was She Feebleminded - Or Society's Pawn' with ISBN 9780882821924 and ISBN 088282192X.
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