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Carrie Buck

Carrie Buck (1906-1983) was a plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell 274 U.S. 200 (1927) and was ordered to undergo compulsory sterilization for purportedly being "feeble-minded" as part of the state of Virginia's eugenics program while a patient at Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded .


See Buck v. Bell for more information about the case and its results.

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