Bill Would Allow Four Counties To Pay Victims Of NC Eugenics Program
A bipartisan group of local lawmakers has filed legislation that would allow four counties, including Guilford and Forsyth, to compensate victims of an old state eugenics program.
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Emma, Carrie, Vivian: How A Family Became A Test Case For Forced Sterilizations
The eugenicists were utopians, convinced that they were doing hard but necessary things. And that included making decisions about who gets to have children.
Poet Imagines Life Inside A 1910 Institution That Eugenics Built
Molly McCully Brown, who has cerebral palsy, says that if she'd been born in a different era, she might have been sent to the "Virginia State Colony," an early landmark of the U.S. eugenics movement.
This Simple Puzzle Test Sealed The Fate Of Immigrants At Ellis Island
What did it take to get through Ellis Island? For a few years, it took passing a puzzle test. NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Adam Cohen, who wrote about it in Smithsonian Magazine.
On A 'Eugenics Registry,' A Record Of California's Thousands Of Sterilizations
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with University of Michigan professor Alex Stern, who has completed a database of the thousands of people recommended for sterilization when California had eugenics laws.
The Supreme Court Ruling That Led To 70,000 Forced Sterilizations
In the first half of the 20th century, American eugenicists used forced sterilization to "breed out" traits they considered undesirable. Adam Cohen tells the story in his new book, Imbeciles.
New Book Is A Personal Response To NC Eugenics Program
A new book explores the 12-year fight to get compensation for victims of North Carolina's forced sterilization program. Rage to Redemption in the Sterilization Age: A Confrontation with American Genocide was written by John Railey.
Forced Sterilization Victims Receive Compensation
North Carolina officials say help is on the way for some people sterilized under orders from state officials over several decades, but only a fraction of those who lost the chance to start a family