Emma, Carrie, Vivian: How A Family Became A Test Case For Forced Sterilizations
The eugenicists were utopians, convinced that they were doing hard but necessary things. And that included making decisions about who gets to have children.
The day was June 4, 1924. A dark-haired girl, just 17 years old, was admitted to the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded. She became colony inmate 1692. The superintendent of the colony examined her. He declared her healthy, free
