This landmark series led to the first legislation in the nation
seeking to compensate victims of eugenics, or involuntary
sterilization. For more than 40 years North Carolina ran one of the
nation's 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 Hitler's Germany. The victims were wives
and daughters. Sisters. Unwed mothers. Children. Even a 10-year-old
boy. Some were blind or mentally retarded. Toward the end they were
mostly black and poor. 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. Against Their Will has drawn praise
from civil rights groups, historians, and the general public.
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