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DATE: SUNDAY, February 3, 1991                   TAG: 9102030113
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-7   EDITION: METRO 
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REPORTER BISHOP RECEIVES FELLOWSHIP

Staff writer Mary Bishop has received a fellowship from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities in Charlottesville to research stories about the survivors of the early years of Virginia's eugenics movement.

Bishop will conduct her research at the Virginia Center for the Humanities, which is the research arm of the money-giving foundation. She will be on leave from the paper for six months.

Bishop will study the selective-breeding program under which state authorities declared some Virginians "feeble-minded" or undesirable. About 8,000 were put into institutions and forcibly sterilized between 1914 and 1972.

The state took custody of children born outside marriage, and many eugenics victims, unable to have more children, never saw their children again. 


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