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• 'Wicked Silence': State board began targeting blacks, but few noticed or seemed to care about program State Sen. Wilbur Jolly's voice thundered as he spoke at a public hearing in the legislature on April 1, 1959. Out-of-wedlock births were soaring and he had a solution. After an unmarried woman gave birth for the third time, he said, she should be sterilized. • DETOUR: In '48 state singled out delinquent boys The seven boys are old men now, if they're all still alive. They are senior citizens who may well carry haunting memories about what happened to them while they were at the Stonewall Jackson Training School in 1948. • Just Carrying Out Orders Some doctors performed sterilizations with no qualms; others, looking back, recall having some reservations For 40 years, in a rather routine fashion, the eugenics board made major decisions for more than 7,600 North Carolinians. • 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
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