Linda Sparkman and Indiana Eugenics Marker, 2007
| http://www.in.gov/history/images/4920071f.JPG" Linda Sparkman views the 1907 Indiana Eugenics Law marker in Indianapolis, April 12, 2007. |
2007 marked the centennial of the 1907 Indiana sterilization law, the first of its kind in the world. Although Linda Sparkman was not sterilized under any of the eugenics laws still on the books in Indiana in 1971, she was invited to unveil a state historic marker describing the original law on April 12, 2007, in Indianapolis. Indiana repealed all laws concerning sterilization of the mentally ill in 1974.
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