During the 1920s the UFWA was an ardent supporter of legislation in Alberta requiring the forced sterilization of those deemed mentally defective or feebleminded and it became one of its most active and powerful lobbying forces.
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To hide the act, on January 23, 1924, Carrie s foster parents committed the girl to the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded on the grounds of feeblemindedness, incorrigible behavior and promiscuity.
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�douard S�guin became the first president of the " Association of Medical Officers of American Institutions for Idiotic and Feebleminded Persons ", an organization that would later be known as the American Association on Mental Retardation.
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However, as Francis Galton s ideas regarding eugenics . became more popular in the early 1900s, concerns for that feebleminded individuals were weakening society grew, and mental deficiency among emigrants also became a concern.
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The court sided with Virginia state law in the 1927 case of Buck v . Bell, which permitted the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and the Feebleminded to sterilize 18-year-old inmate Carrie Buck.
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He has cast himself as defender of the county's workers, and, in some way, of the county itself, the people of which have often been portrayed as either feebleminded or feeble-wristed.
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But the pair need a pliable Albanian to serve as the company's chairman; their choice is Spiro ( Carmelo Di Mazzarelli ), a feebleminded 70-year-old who has spent decades as a political prisoner.
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She told of a 53-year-old man who realized five years ago, after reading a revisionist account of the closing of the Brandon Home for the Feebleminded, that he had probably been sterilized when he was 7.
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Your example of " Retard " is good on this : in the 1950s, retard may well have been a neutral way to describe a mentally handicapped person, and not insulting like " feebleminded " ( and would have been appropriate for a 1950s Wikipedia ).
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The book begins by discussing the case of " Deborah Kallikak, " ( real name Emma Wolverton, 1889 1978 ), a woman in Goddard's institution, the New Jersey Home for the Education and Care of Feebleminded Children ( now Vineland Training School ).
