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A University in Transition: Florida State College for Women and Florida State University, 1941‑1957. Florida State University. Dodd, William George (1948). "Early Education in Tallahassee and the West Florida Seminary, Now Florida State University". Florida Historical Quarterly (XXVII): 1‑27. Dodd, William George (1952).
The first state to introduce a compulsory sterilization bill was Michigan in 1897 – although the proposed law failed to garner enough votes by legislators to be adopted, it did set the stage for other sterilization bills. [38] Eight years later, Pennsylvania's state legislators passed a sterilization bill that was vetoed by the governor. [39]
The sterilization law passed in Minnesota in 1925 stated that anyone of any age that was determined to be “feeble minded” was legally able to be sterilized, with or without permission. Around 1930, Minnesota began to be known as “the most feeble minded-conscious” state because of the way they care for the mentally disabled.
Florida State University (FSU or Florida State) is a public research university in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida and a preeminent university in the state. [15] Chartered in 1851, it is located on Florida's oldest continuous site of higher education. [16] [2]
Harry H. Laughlin Papers at Truman State University; Eugenics Images Archive at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; The Sterilization of America: A Cautionary History; University of Virginia: Eugenics Archived 2013-05-31 at the Wayback Machine; Laughlin, Harry H. Eugenical Sterilization in the United States. Psychopathic Laboratory of the Municipal ...
California, the first state in the U.S. to enact compulsory sterilization based on eugenics, sterilized all prison inmates under the 1909 sterilization law. [186] In the last 40 years, judges have offered lighter punishment (i.e. probation instead of jail sentences) to people willing to use contraception or be sterilized, particularly in child ...
Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927), is a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court, written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., in which the Court ruled that a state statute permitting compulsory sterilization of the unfit, including the intellectually disabled, "for the protection and health of the state" did not violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the ...
The compulsory sterilization of developmentally disabled people began in the late 19th century, even before the first state sterilization law was passed in 1907. From then on, the forced sterilizations of developmentally disabled people occurred in very high numbers until about the 1940s, when this number started to drop due to states beginning ...