For more than 40 years, a state-sponsored program was designed to reduce social problems like poverty and mental illness. By the time it ended in 1974, the North Carolina Eugenics Board had ordered ...
RALEIGH, N.C. - Elaine Riddick was a confused and frightened 14-year-old. She was poor and black, the daughter of alcoholic parents in a segregated North Carolina town. And she was pregnant after ...
Tubal ligation was considered serious surgery when Elaine Riddick Jessie and thousands of other North Carolina women were sterilized. Doctors would put a woman under anesthesia and cut one to three ...
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