Against Their Will
North Carolina's Sterilization Program and the campaign for reparations
by Kevin Begos, Danielle Deaver, John Railey & Scott Sexton
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Pub Date Mar 20 2012 | Archive Date Sep 01 2012
Gray Oak Books | PRByTheBook
Description
This award-winning series in the Winston-Salem Journal led to the first legislation in the nation seeking to compensate victims of eugenics, or involuntary sterilization.
They were wives and daughters. Sisters. Unwed mothers. Children. Even a 10-year-old boy. Some were blind or mentally retarded. Toward the end they were mostly black and poor. North Carolina sterilized them all, more than 7,600 people. The state ran one of the nation’s largest and most aggressive sterilization programs until the 1970s. It expanded after World War II with help from a wealthy New Yorker and an heir to the Procter & Gamble fortune, even as most other states pulled back in light of the horrors of Hitler’s Germany.
They were wives and daughters. Sisters. Unwed mothers. Children. Even a 10-year-old boy. Some were blind or mentally retarded. Toward the end they were mostly black and poor. North Carolina sterilized them all, more than 7,600 people. The state ran one of the nation’s largest and most aggressive sterilization programs until the 1970s. It expanded after World War II with help from a wealthy New Yorker and an heir to the Procter & Gamble fortune, even as most other states pulled back in light of the horrors of Hitler’s Germany.
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