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The first sterilization in Buncombe County has been vertified, according to the N.C. Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation. An additional person in McDowell County has also been verified, bringing the total confirmed victims to six in the 18 westernmost counties of North Carolina.
The N.C. Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation is again accepting victim verification requests.
Due to the joint budget agreement to exclude funding for compensation for victims of the state’s former Eugenics Board program, as well as continuat ...
The Senate Appropriations Committee is conducting a hearing this morning to discuss aspects of its budget bill, which includes no funding for eugenics ...
A bill to compensate victims of the state’s former Eugenics Board program was passed Tuesday by House members and now advances to the Senate. It calls for a $50,000 lump-sum payment to living, confirmed victims of the program and for the ...
The House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday pushed forward a bill introduced last week that would give each living, confirmed victim of North Carolina’s eugenics and forced-sterilization campaign $50,000 in compensation. It is estimated that ...
A bipartisan group of House legislators filed a bill today that officially calls for compensation for living victims of the state's eugenics program.
The funds will support $50,000 payments to verified victims of the state’s former Eugenics Board program, which involuntarily sterilized North Carolinians during the 20th century, and will be used to ensure continued operations of the N.C ...
Carolina Public Press has obtained copies of case files for several WNC victims of the N.C. Eugenics Board program, which sterilized men and women across the state from the 1930s into the early 1970s. Of the 551 victims from the region, onl ...
The state task force devoted to addressing North Carolina's forced-sterilization program made, in its final report issued Jan. 27, the most definitive and potentially viable case yet for compensating the program's living survivors, estimate ...
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