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• 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 ATLANTA - Elaine Riddick Jessie can't forgive the state of North Carolina for what it did to her in an Edenton hospital in 1968. She tenses as she talks about being sterilized soon after delivering her first and only child when she was 14. • Board did its duty, quietly Members from five governmental areas heard case summaries and usually stamped approval For 40 years, in a rather routine fashion, the eugenics board made major decisions for more than 7,600 North Carolinians. • TYING THE TUBES: Operation has become faster, less painful • READ THIS: Records unexpectedly available • FEWER PEOPLE: Peru resorting to sterilization?
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