Goddard went to Ellis Island in 1912 and tested immigrants, " discovering " that four-fifths of incoming Jews, Hungarians, Italians and Russians were feebleminded.
22.
This had appealed the order for compulsory sterilization of Carrie Buck, who was an inmate in the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded, and her daughter and mother.
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According to the website of the Vineland Training School, the original official name was " The New Jersey Home for the Education and Care of Feebleminded Children ( 1888 ).
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Proponents of eugenics thought they could purify the white race by targeting people they considered " feebleminded, " including the mentally ill, mentally retarded, alcoholic or immoral.
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The Sterilization Act gave State institutions, including hospitals, psychiatric institutions and prisons, the statutory authority to sterilize persons deemed to be " feebleminded " a highly subjective criterion.
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A visitor to the Division for the Feebleminded at Crownsville described his experiences in a memo of November 2, 1944 to the Commissioner of Mental Hygiene ( Dr . Preston ).
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Negative eugenics to remove the " feebleminded " were popular in America, Canada and Australia, and eugenics in the United States introduced compulsory sterilization laws, followed by several other countries.
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Luddite, n . : said to be after Ned Lud, feebleminded man who smashed two frames belonging to a Leicestershire employer . . . a person opposed in principle to technological change.
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Confronted by the European press last week about the application of the death penalty to the feebleminded, Bush declared, " We should never execute anybody who is mentally retarded ."
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It was launched in 1915, when the Texas legislature passed House Bill 57, creating the State Colony for the Feebleminded, as the first facility specifically to house citizens with mental disabilities.
