Tuesday, June 21, 2011

North Carolina faces sterilization program's legacy, may offer compensation

From The Huffington Post. In the picture, Delores Marks poses for photograph in her home in Durham, N.C. Marks' mother, Margaret Helen Cheek, was sterilized during North Carolina's eugenics program at Cherry Hospital in Goldsboro, N.C., where she was a patient for more than 10 years.RALEIGH, N.C. -- Nearly 35 years after ending the country's most active post-war sterilization program, North