Carrie Buck

Carrie Buck

Carrie E. Buck (July 3, 1906 – January 28, 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." The surgery was carried out while Buck was an inmate of the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded under the authority of the Racial Integrity Act of 1924, part of the state of Virginia's eugenics program.