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When America Sterilized Women of Color

When America Sterilized Women of Color

Stuff Mom Never Told You

May 11, 20161h 5m

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Show Notes

Forcible sterilizations of black women in the South were so frequent in the 1960s, civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer nicknamed them Mississippi appendectomies. Cristen and Caroline chart the disturbing American practice of nonconsensually sterilizing women of color and the eugenics movement that started it.

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