Eugenic Sterilization and Buck v. Bell

Professor Jeffrey Powell, Oakland University Department of History, provides a glimpse of early 20th century eugenics and social Darwinism surrounding the Supreme Court case of Buck vs. Bell. For more information on the topics of this podcast, try “War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race”  —  Edwin Black “War on the Weak: Eugenics in America”   (video documentary) “Birth-Control Politics in the United States, 1916 -1945”  —  Carole R. McCann “Buck Vs. Bell” - Article in the Encyclopedia of American History, Volume 7  —   Jeffrey Powell --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alan-partington1/message