Buck v. Bell: the Supreme Court case that fueled the eugenics movement.
and sent to the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-minded. The colony was created as a result of the burgeoning eugenics movement and sought to segregate those who were seen as genetically inferior so that their “defects” might be kept from spreading through reproduction.promising
, in the words of breakfast cereal magnate and ardent eugenicist John Harvey Kellogg, “a new and glorified human race which sometime, far down in the future, will have so mastered the forces of nature that disease and degeneracy will have been eliminated.” If the genetically inferior could be taken out of the equation, the belief went, this utopian future could be achieved.
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