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Title:

The Lynchburg story [videorecording] : eugenic sterilization in America / [presented by Filmakers Library ; produced in association with Discovery Networks and Channel Four; a Worldview Pictures production.

Format:

[videorecording] :

Publisher:

Filmakers Library,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

1 videodisc (55 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.

Subject:

Lynchburg Colony for the Epileptic and Feebleminded.
Eugenics--United States--History--20th century.
Involuntary sterilization--Moral and ethical aspects--Virginia.
Sterilization (Birth control)--Moral and ethical aspects--Virginia.
Medical ethics--Virginia.

Other Authors:

Filmakers Library, inc.

Notes:

Narrator: Juliet Stevenson.

Summary:

Between 1927 and 1972, over 8,000 Virginia children were sterilized because the state decided they were unfit to reproduce. Victims tell how they were taken from their families and forced to live in the infamous Lynchburg Colony.

Series:

Filmakers Library (Series)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)137727212

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)