The human life behind the legal case.
A real woman was turned into a legal symbol.
Carrie Buck was labelled and judged by systems that ignored violence done to her and used her pregnancy against her.
Her story matters because it puts a human face back into a case often discussed as legal history.
Awareverse insists that every file has a person inside it.
When looking at carrie buck, ask: who had power, who was being labelled, and what would have changed if the human being had been seen first?