Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
by Adam Cohen
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- Grade
- 9-12
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Cultural Experience
- Women / Girls
Year Published 2016
Word Count 111,340
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 1270L
- ATOS Reading Level: 10.2
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 181146, 22 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- History
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Involuntary sterilization--Law and legislation--United States
- Virginia
- Trials, litigation, etc
- History | United States | 20th Century
- Involuntary sterilization
- HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
- Eugenics
- Buck, Carrie, 1906-1983--Trials, litigation, etc
- LAW / Legal History
- Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927)
- Law | Civil Rights
- United States
- Eugenics--Law and legislation--United States
- Buck, Carrie
- Involuntary sterilization--Law and legislation--Virginia
- LAW / Civil Rights
- Law | Legal History
- Law and legislation
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