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Forced sterilization policies in the US targeted minorities and those with disabilities – and lasted into the 21st century

  • Written by Alexandra Minna Stern, Professor of American Culture, History, and Women's Studies, University of Michigan
Forced sterilization policies in the US targeted minorities and those with disabilities – and lasted into the 21st centuryAn operation taking place in 1941 on South Side of Chicago.Library of Congress

In August 1964, the North Carolina Eugenics Board met to decide if a 20-year-old Black woman should be sterilized. Because her name was redacted from the records, we call her Bertha.

She was a single mother with one child who lived at the segregated O'Berry Center for...

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