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The Troubling Past of Forced Sterilization of Black Women and Girls in Mississippi and the South
As the Civil Rights Movement gained momentum in the 1950s, white southern politicians, local officials and doctors saw sterilizing Black women as a key way to maintain the power of white supremacy amid the erosion of the Jim Crow South. Courtesy of Truman State University's Harry H. Laughlin Papers, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums, via National Museum of American History
As the Civil Rights Movement gained momentum in the 1950s, white southern politicians, local officials and doctors saw sterilizing Black women as a key way to maintain the power of white supremacy amid the erosion of the Jim Crow South. Courtesy of Truman State University's Harry H. Laughlin Papers, Pickler Memorial Library Special Collections and Museums, via National Museum of American History
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