Eugenics Board of North Carolina

North Carolina Comes to Terms with History of Forced Sterilizations

Eugenics laws allowed more than thirty states to sterilize people “undeemed to breed” for nearly a century. While it is irrevocably associated with the super-race fetish and ethnic cleansing of Nazi Germany, the so-called science of eugenics is actually an American distortion of medical science. Much of the murky original research and theories of how […]