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Stories
 
• Lifting the Curtain On a Shameful Era
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.
• 'Still Hiding':
Woman sterilized at 14 carries a load of shame
• Board did its duty, quietly
• TYING THE TUBES: Operation has become faster, less painful
• READ THIS: Records unexpectedly available
• FEWER PEOPLE: Peru resorting to sterilization?
• Forsyth in the Forefront
Medical school to probe its role in county plan for sterilization
• Sign This or Else...
A young woman made a hard choice, and life has not been peaceful since
• Benefactor With a Racist Bent
• Geneticist combed Watauga County, creating and studying family trees
• ADVOCATE: WF president embraced eugenics movement
• CASTRATION:Files suggest that punishment was often the aim
• Selling a Solution
Group founded by Hanes, others sent sterilization in new direction
• 'It Ain't Fair'
Old IQ score helped social workers get teen-ager sterilized
• City's kids put to the test in '48
• ALL ABOARD: Newspapers jumped on sterilization bandwagon
• 'Wicked Silence':
State board began targeting blacks, but few noticed or seemed to care about program
• DETOUR: In '48 state singled out delinquent boys
• Some doctors performed sterilizations with no qualms; others, looking back, recall having some reservations
• Church Silent: Scarce Catholics no threat to N.C. drive to sterilize
• Sterilization was often the way out
• 'BAD' GIRLS: Indians posed a tricky race problem for the state
• Tempting Choices
The new frontier must not forget to ask why, who, geneticists warn
• Stirring Up Academia
Researchers hop on scientific breakthroughs to promote their causes
• Painless and Permanent
Detractors fear that many women will not be clear about the consequences of cheap new sterilization method
• Bedfellows in the Cause: Major backer of eugenics program also financed birth-control clinics
• LEGAL: N.C. can still sterilize retarded adults
• Class played a role in eugenics sterilizations, researcher says
• Senate votes to repeal sterilization law
Easley expected to sign bill; panel to look at reparations
• House votes 116-1 to end sterilization law
Rarely used law a remnant of N.C. eugenics program
• Panel accepts change to law
Womble's bill would end last tie to eugenics
• Eugenics panel hears of pain
'It's like a cancer that eats you and eats you and eats you,' victim says
• California is latest state to apologize for eugenics
It 'must never be repeated,' governor says
• Some caution against ban on involuntary sterilization
• Law that lets judges order sterilizations facing repeal
• Little Notice and Less Explanation
The state's eugenics board ordered sterilizations in its last years even as some members sought reforms
• Some eugenics patients died after surgery
• HIGH HOPES: Birth-control clinics opened to fanfare in 1938
• Eugenics panel to consider redress
• N.C. first to weigh eugenics amends
• South Carolina governor apologizes for forced sterilizations
• Advocacy group wants Bush apology for eugenics
• Easley apologizes to sterilization victims
• Editorial: Against Their Will III
• Editorial: Against Their Will II
• Editorial: Against Their Will I
Related Materials
About the Series
A Note from the Editor
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