Philosopher George Santayana said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Elements of the early eugenics movement in America were models for the Nazis. The eugenics archives has a comprehensive website of documents from the Eugenics Record Office where the Eugenics movement in America is exhaustively chronicled. The Chicago Tribune has this piece out which reminds us today of the women still profoundly affected by their own personal stories of involuntary sterilization. Elaine Riddick of North Carolina recounts her story of growing up in Winfall, N.C., with alcoholic parents. At 13, she was sent to an orphanage and eventually ended up on the street. Repeatedly sexually assaulted by an older man in the community. Pregnant at the age of 14, she fit the profile for the eugenics board in North Carolina, "which during its course sterilized more than 2,000 children, some as young as 10."
The Human Face of the U.S. Eugenics Movement
Philosopher George Santayana said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Elements of the early eugenics movement in America were models for the Nazis. The eugenics archives has a comprehensive website of documents from the Eugenics Record Office where the Eugenics movement in America is exhaustively chronicled. The Chicago Tribune has this piece out which reminds us today of the women still profoundly affected by their own personal stories of involuntary sterilization. Elaine Riddick of North Carolina recounts her story of growing up in Winfall, N.C., with alcoholic parents. At 13, she was sent to an orphanage and eventually ended up on the street. Repeatedly sexually assaulted by an older man in the community. Pregnant at the age of 14, she fit the profile for the eugenics board in North Carolina, "which during its course sterilized more than 2,000 children, some as young as 10."
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