Carrie Buck's memory board

Carrie Buck was the first person involuntarily sterilized under Virginia's eugenics laws. The colony's superintendent decided to use Buck as a test case for the state's new sterilization law. In Buck v. Bell (1927), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Virginia's law was constitutional and that Buck should be sterilized. Her sterilization was the first of approximately 8,300 performed under state law between 1927 and 1972. This timeline was created to preserve her memories in a single place online. https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Buck_Carrie_Elizabeth_1906-1983