Date: September 23rd, 2004 3:20 AM Author: Yellow chad heaven
Alabama established "The Alabama Home" for "all persons of whatever age who are deficient or inferior, ... [*5] idiots, imbeciles, feeble-minded or morons, and ... epileptics ..." 1919 Ala. Acts 738, No. 568, § 2, 7-8. A brochure touting the institution warned of the "feeble-minded":
They do not work. They are immoral. They commit crimes. They multiply like rabbits, and their children are feeble-minded. This institutional care and training of the feeble-minded (1) Purifies human stock, and (2) reduces taxes.