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• Labeled
  By Dan Currier
  (Digital Video, 9:56. 2007)
  
  By the end of 1960's more that 60% of the people sterilized under
  North Carolina's Eugenics laws were black, of those, 99% were female.
  
  The Eugenics movement claimed that feeblemindedness; mental illness, genetic defects,
  and social ills could be eliminated by sterilization.
  
  Social workers and psychologist often labeled ordinary people feebleminded
  based on inconclusive evidence. Between 1929 and 1974 more than 7,600
  people were sterilized under North Carolina's Eugenics laws.
  
  "Labeled" is the story of Elaine Riddick, who was one of those women.
  
  
  
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