Nevertheless, it is important to note that eugenics never really went away. While mainstream geneticists increasingly condemned what they referred to as “eugenics’ excesses,” North Carolina’s eugenic sterilization program actually expanded after World War II and continued until 1974.71 An investigation by the Winston-Salem Journal in the 1990s uncovered records documenting decisions by the Eugenics Board of North Carolina, a panel of five bureaucrats who enforced the state’s 1929 eugenics law (revised in 1933) authorizing compulsory sterilization for epilepsy, disability, and feeblemindedness.
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