For the Public Good Forced Sterilization and the Fight for Compensation (Audible Audio Edition) Belle Boggs Margie Lenhart Audible Studios Books
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Between 1929 and 1974, more than 7,600 North Carolinians were sterilized, sometimes without informed consent and frequently under coercion. The victims, poor men and women from around the state, were never compensated for losing the ability to conceive children. Nearly 40 years later, during a rancorous 2013 legislative session in which severe restrictions on abortion, voting rights and funding for public education were passed, the state got another chance to right one of its most shameful acts. In this personal and powerful work of longform journalism from new digital publisher The New New South, award-winning author Belle Boggs traces the chilling history of eugenics in America, tells the poignant stories of North Carolina's sterilization victims, and goes inside their decade-long fight for justice.
For the Public Good Forced Sterilization and the Fight for Compensation (Audible Audio Edition) Belle Boggs Margie Lenhart Audible Studios Books
First, I want to say thank you to Belle Boggs for bringing this story to light. As a North Carolina resident, I only learned the disgraceful truth of North Carolina's eugenics program back in 2010 and I was shocked. It has been a well kept secret for many years. So, when I happened upon Ms. Belle's essay, I absolutely had no choice but to read it.Belle Boggs tells the story of a small handful of North Carolina's victims with much compassion and empathy and documents their struggle to find some justice for the irreversible wrong done to more than 7600 North Carolinians between 1929 and 1974.
More than thirty states in our great nation had similar eugenics programs in place, California actually sterilized 20,000 people for the "Public Good"...and this topic is still talked about in hushed tones.
Personally, I do not believe that any amount of compensation for the living victims will correct this wrong. I think that the only way North Carolina can atone for this black, dark stain on our recent history is to make this story known in our high schools. Ms. Belles essay should be required reading for high school students in our fair state. Education is the only guarantee that this will not happen again.
This essay is beautifully written. Well done Ms. Boggs !
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For the Public Good Forced Sterilization and the Fight for Compensation (Audible Audio Edition) Belle Boggs Margie Lenhart Audible Studios Books Reviews
A short, easy read which, IMO, spends too much time on the author's expression of empathy for victims of sterilization as a consequence of her own tribulations attempting, apparently unsuccessfully, to conceive a child herself. And, while this book provides some info re the implementation of forced sterilization in some 33 states, the majority of its focus is on North Carolina - detailing the travails of 2 or 3 individuals who fell victim to the onerous sterilization procedure in that one state. Interestingly, it was the state of California where the largest number of forced sterilizations occurred, reportedly equalling ~ 4 times the numbers in NC. I mistakenly assumed that the book's title implied that an overarching view of the subject matter would be taken but the space devoted to the facts of the CA program, for example, is quite limited. Given that the digital edition cost only $3., I suppose one could have done worse. That said, I should think that one could likely do a bit better.
Belle Boggs has written an excellent essay that covers the practice of eugenics, or forced sterilization, in North Carolina between 1929 and 1974. The sterilizations were done to people without their consent or willingness so that hereditary illnesses and other problems would not be passed on in families and only the best could reproduce for the good of society. North Carolina during these years sterilized 7600 people. Thirty-three states participated in the program, and California alone sterilized 20,000. This practice in the U.S. was passed on to the impressed Nazis in Germany during the Third Reich because of its ability to end the propagation of the "weakminded" and anyone with a low IQ and other infirmities.
This is something that hasn't been publicly discussed that much, and also that a lot of Americans are unaware that this happened and that a group of people along with North Carolina politicians have worked long and hard to try to get compensation for the victims who are still alive. The compensation package was just approved in 2012.
Boggs, with great sensitivity, shows the consequences of these sterilizations on people when they were as young as 14, and how it affected their lives, knowing that they could never have children, and the shame they felt through no fault of their own. This was a terrible thing to do to people, and we should be aware of it and also how politicians justify their decisions when it isn't their generation who did these atrocities.
Highly recommended for everyone to read.
Couldn't believe all that went on that I had no idea about. crazy. I would recommend this, better to know than not.
In my wildest dreams I could never imagine this happening in our country
What a sin to be subjected to total lack of control of your body. So sad, but informative and a story that needed to be told and remembered so it does not happen again.
I have always been interested in public health and the treatment of the poor and uneducated. in both the prison and health care system.
This book blew my socks off; why would anyone do this to another human being. Nobody stood up for these children and young adults; sometimes I am ashamed of the way citizens are treated in this country.
First, I want to say thank you to Belle Boggs for bringing this story to light. As a North Carolina resident, I only learned the disgraceful truth of North Carolina's eugenics program back in 2010 and I was shocked. It has been a well kept secret for many years. So, when I happened upon Ms. Belle's essay, I absolutely had no choice but to read it.
Belle Boggs tells the story of a small handful of North Carolina's victims with much compassion and empathy and documents their struggle to find some justice for the irreversible wrong done to more than 7600 North Carolinians between 1929 and 1974.
More than thirty states in our great nation had similar eugenics programs in place, California actually sterilized 20,000 people for the "Public Good"...and this topic is still talked about in hushed tones.
Personally, I do not believe that any amount of compensation for the living victims will correct this wrong. I think that the only way North Carolina can atone for this black, dark stain on our recent history is to make this story known in our high schools. Ms. Belles essay should be required reading for high school students in our fair state. Education is the only guarantee that this will not happen again.
This essay is beautifully written. Well done Ms. Boggs !
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