by Adam Cohen
Trend of the Race, The (Holmes), 54
Tribe, Laurence, 11
Tribe of Ishmael, The (McCulloch), 50, 156
Trinkle, Elbert Lee, 86, 90, 210
unions, immignation and, 127
United Methodist Church, 60–61
United States v. Ju Toy, 237
United States v. Schwimmer, 316
universities, eugenics and, 4, 53–54, 112
University of Virginia, 18–19, 71–73, 172, 174–75
“Upon the Formation of a Deaf Variety of the Human Race” (Bell), 111
urbanization, increase in, 4, 44, 55
U.S. Census Bureau, 122
“Utility and Futility of Punishment for Crime in Virginia, The” (Strode), 306–7
vaccination:
as analogy for sterilization, 205, 208, 257, 274–75
eugenics movement’s disapproval of, 48
Van Devanter, Willis, 263, 264, 277
Van Wagenen, Bleecker, 52, 117
vasectomy, 65
See also sterilization
Vaughn v. Ruoff, 318
venereal disease, 190
“Village of a Thousand Souls, The” (Gesell), 54
Vineland Training School for Feeble-minded Girls and Boys, 31, 52
Virginia:
Albemarle County history, 17–18
apology for sterilizations, 1
delay of sterilizations during Buck v. Bell, 6, 89, 90, 161, 178, 210–11, 305
early mental health policy in, 38–39
eugenics movement in, 71–77
institutionalization laws, 84–85
post–Buck v. Bell sterilizations, 301–2
post–World War II sterilizations, 319
sterilization law (1916), 80–83, 84, 161, 176
sterilization law (1924), 86–90, 100, 161, 177–78, 266, 272, 304–5
Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded:
and Buck v. Priddy, 98
Carrie Buck’s institutionalization in, 6, 27–30, 167
and Carrie Buck’s sterilization hearing, 93–97
Emma Buck’s institutionalization in, 22–23
farming at, 29, 41, 42
history of, 40–44
parole system, 284
Priddy as superintendent of, 7–8, 36, 41, 42–43
and Strode, 175–76
Virginia Law Review, 200–201, 305
Virginia State Epileptic Colony, 41–43
Virginia sterilization law campaign:
and Carrington’s bill (1909), 75, 85, 89, 177
DeJarnette’s role in, 75–77, 80, 81, 84, 85, 86, 90, 146
Drewry’s role in, 79–80
medical profession support for, 8, 74
Priddy’s idealized account of, 146
and Virginia sterilization law (1916), 80–83, 84, 161, 176
Virginia Supreme Court appeal, 203–10
briefs, 203–6, 275
decision, 207–8
malfeasance in, 207, 208–10
voices of reason:
and criminal anthropology, 49, 50, 155, 157, 193
on immigration, 132–33
and immigration restrictions, 132–34
on intelligence testing, 31, 33, 198, 253, 256, 267
on natural selection, 48, 323
on societal privileging of power, 323
and sterilization, 67–69, 84, 91, 101, 137–38
voting rights, 167–68, 173, 233–35
vulnerable groups. See societal privileging of power
Wagener, Otto, 302
Wallin, J. E. Wallace, 33, 198
Ward, Harry F., 60
Washington and Lee University, 163
Welch, William, 111
Weld, Samuel, 228
West, Jesse, 207
West End Presbyterian Church (New York), 56
Western Lunatic Asylum (Western State Hospital), 39, 40, 76, 169
Whitehead, Irving:
Buck v. Bell brief, 254–56
and Carrie Buck testimony decision, 197
cross-examination by, 183–85, 186–87, 189–90, 193, 195–96, 204
malfeasance overview, 209
and Special Board of Directors meeting, 208–9
and Strode, 98, 178
support for sterilization, 98–99
Virginia Supreme Court appeal brief, 203–4
white supremacy. See racism
“Whose Country Is This?” (Coolidge), 134
Wigmore, John, 242, 264
Wilhelm, Caroline:
Buck v. Priddy testimony of, 185–87, 268, 270
and Carrie Buck’s institutionalization, 27, 28–29
and Estabrook’s Buck v. Priddy testimony, 180
and Laughlin’s Buck v. Priddy testimony, 150
and Laughlin’s investigation, 147
William, Albert Edward, 3
Williams, J. F., 23
Williams, Roger, 216
Wilson, Edmund, 223
Wilson, Woodrow, 100, 259
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 105
women as targets of eugenics movement, 25–26, 81, 301
and “differential fecundity,” 73–74, 92, 117, 188
See also sexual behavior
women’s rights, 174–75
Wood, Eula, 184
World War I, 239, 243–44, 245, 247
World War II, 314, 317
Wyzanski, Charles, 212
Yankee from Olympus (Bowen), 213
Yerkes, Robert, 34
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