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Against their will : North Carolina's sterilization program and the campaign for reparations by Kevin Begos; Danielle Deaver; John Railey; Scott Sexton; Paul Lombardo is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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They were wives and daughters. Unwed mothers. Children. Even a 10-year-old boy. Some were blind or mentally retarded. Toward the end they were mostly black and poor, and it all took place not in the distant past, but up until the 1970s. For more than 40 years North Carolina ran one of the nations largest and most aggressive sterilization programs. It expanded after World War II, even as most other states pulled back in light of the horrors of Hitlers Germany. This spring, North Carolina is poised to become the first state to pay reparations to victims of eugenics, or involuntary sterilization. North Carolinas historic debate over its eugenic past was launched by Against Their Will, a series in the Winston- Salem Journal. A team of reporters exposed the scientific flaws and racial bais of the eugenics program through interviews with victims, the doctors who operated on them, the bureaucrats who ran the program, and long-hidden documents that historian Johanna Schoen shared with a reporter. The series led directly to an apology from the governor and the first efforts in the nation seeking to compensate victims of eugenics. Against Their Will has drawn praise from civil rights groups,

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Author

Kevin Begos; Danielle Deaver; John Railey; Scott Sexton; Paul Lombardo

Publisher

Apalachicola, FL: Gray Oak Books

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780941062152

Category

history

Subjects

Social Science, History, Social_sciences

Rating

3.93 / 5 (27 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13