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
An operation taking place in 1941 on South Side of Chicago.Library of CongressIn 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...
