From the AP/Seattle Times, Winston-Salem Journal:

North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue has proposed spending $250,000 from her budget to set up a foundation aimed at providing justice and compensation for the victims of the state’s eugenic sterilization program.

The proposal falls short of proposing to pay actual reparations to the 2,800 surviving victims of North Carolina’s 45-year sterilization program. Legislators who have been pushing the funding for years say Perdue’s proposal is a start.

North Carolina was one of more than two dozen states that ran programs of forced eugenic sterilization. The programs targeted women who were considered  — sometimes inaccurately — to be mentally deficient or genetically inferior. From 1929 until 1974, more than 7,600 people were forcibly sterilized under North Carolina’s program.

See also:

Bill would open state hospital death records — Charlotte Observer

See earlier posts here.

(Photo from Winston-Salem Journal)

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