Carrie Buck
Carrie Elizabeth Buck was the plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell, after having been ordered to undergo compulsory sterilization for purportedly being "feeble-minded." The surgery, carried out while Buck was an inmate of the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded, took place under the authority of the Eugenical Sterilization Act of 1924, part of the Commonwealth of Virginia's eugenics program.
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Female
Date of Birth
July 3rd, 1906
Age
120
Birth Place
United States of America, Virginia
Date of Death
January 28th, 1983
Died Aged
76
Star Sign
Cancer
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