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Against Their Will: North Carolina’s Sterilization Program and the campaign for reparations

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For more than 40 years North Carolina ran probably the most nation’s largest and most aggressive sterilization programs. It expanded after World War II with assist from a rich New Yorker and a Harvard professor who was once also an heir to the Procter & Gamble fortune, whilst most other states pulled back in light of the horrors of Hitler’s Germany.
The sufferers 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. This award-winning series in the Winston-Salem Journal led to an apology from the North Carolina governor and the first legislation in the nation in search of to compensate sufferers of eugenics, or involuntary sterilization.
A team of reporters combined original research and interviews with sufferers with work done by historians Johanna Schoen and Paul Lombardo to produce a detailed expose of the eugenics program.
After the series was once published, the Journal’s editorial page started a campaign to bring attention to the needs of surviving sufferers of the program.
Now to be had as a book for the first time, Against Their Will has drawn praise from civil rights leaders, historians, journalists, and most people.

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