Dr. Troy Kickler, director of the N.C. History Project, explains that people investigating North Carolina’s government-run forced-sterilization eugenics program should look beyond the 1960s. Kickler delivered these remarks as part of a presentation to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society June 29, 2009. To watch full-length presentations of John Locke Foundation events, click here.
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