One county sterilized more people than any other, partially because the head of welfare believed it was a good option for women at a time when... A Brutal Chapter In North Carolina's Eugenics Past ...

Even as a young girl, the shadow of a dark history hung over Orlice Hodges. At seven years old, she remembers her grandmother offering an explanation — chilling in retrospect — of what happened to ...

Joseph Palko first learned about North Carolina’s troubled history of eugenic sterilizations from school — but not the one he attended. Down the road from his Central Cabarrus High School stood the ...

(AP) – Q: WHAT HAPPENED IN NORTH CAROLINA? A: Under the state’s eugenics program, which began in 1929, more than 7,600 people underwent sterilizations. Some procedures were forced to weed out the ...

The North Carolina Senate rejected a plan to compensate victims of a mass sterilization plan that targeted mostly poor minorities for decades in the 20th century. On Wednesday, Senate Republicans ...

Coerced sterilization: outcomes, theories, methods -- The eugenicists: short portraits -- Eugenic anxieties -- Homes for the feebleminded -- The eugenicists' first throw: sterilization policy before ...

North Carolina is trying to make amends for an ugly chapter in its history during which more than 7,000 people were sterilized — many against their will. At least half of the states had eugenics laws, ...

Orlice “Lisa” Hodges clutches an educational brochure about North Carolinas’ eugenics program on August 5, 2021, in Raleigh. As a young woman, Hodges was told by relatives that her aunt was “fixed”- a ...