8:42pm May 24, 2014

➸ Newser: N. Carolina Will Pay $10M to Forced Sterilization Victims

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coffeyunplugged:

FIRST STATE TO COMPENSATE EUGENICS VICTIMS

[Image: A picture of a Black woman with some gray hair, seated, hands together holding a pen as she wipes her eye.]

Over a period of 45 years, North Carolina forcibly sterilized 7,600 people it deemed mentally or socially unfit. Now, 39 years since the state’s eugenics program ended in 1974, it will finally make reparations, with lawmakers earmarking $10…

LISTEN: IF YOU KNOW ANYONE IS IS A VICTIM OF B.C. EUGENICS OR WAS IMMEDIATELY EFFECTED BY IT THEN YOU NEED TO APPLY FOR THESE REPARATIONS. 

YOU NEED TO APPLY

THERE IS AN INCREDIBLY SMALL AMOUNT OF APPLICANTS AND THE DEADLINE IS IN JUNE

PLEASE BOOST!!!!!

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