Eugenics

NC Eugenics: From 1929-1974, North Carolina’s Eugenics Board forced the sterilization of more than 7,000 residents. Some of the men and women who were sterilized asked for the operations, but many others were coerced by social workers and family members. Records of the program were locked away in state archives until historian Johanna Schoen was given access in the late 1980s. Host Frank Stasio talks with Schoen about her research on North Carolina eugenics and her new book, “Choice & Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare” (The University of North Carolina Press/2005). We also hear from Kevin Begos, who reported on the eugenics program for the Winston Salem-Journal. Listener Call-In. (59:00)

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