R. G. Shelton, on behalf of Carrie Buck, appeals Buck’s sterilization order to the Amherst County Circuit Court. Buck was an inmate at the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded in Madison Heights, near Lynchburg. Shelton’s appeal, at the behest of the colony’s superintendent, A. S. Priddy, was designed to test the legality of a Virginia law authorizing such sterilizations. The appeal was eventually upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in Buck v. Bell (1927).
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