Claim: During the 19th and 20th centuries, some U.S. cities enacted so-called "ugly laws" banning people deemed "diseased, maimed, mutilated or in any way deformed so as to be an unsightly or disgusting object or improper person" from public spaces.
Fact-check: Did Some Cities in the United States Have 'Ugly Laws' to Keep Disabled People Out of Sight?
Verdict: true
Organisation: Snopes
Author: David Emery
Date published: 2017-01-11T17:54:26