North Carolina Offers $10 Million to Victims of Eugenics Program

Fox News/The Wall Street Journal: North Carolina offers $10 million for victims of forced-sterilization program:

North Carolina will spend $10 million to compensate men and women who were sterilized in the state's eugenics program, which was among the most extensive and long-running of its kind.

North Carolina sterilized 7,600 people from 1929 to 1974 who were deemed socially or mentally unfit. Victims were as young as 10 years old and nearly all were sterilized forcibly or with inadequate consent, according to the state. . . .