RALEIGH — As North Carolina inches toward compensating victims of its eugenic sterilization program, about three dozen living victims have been verified, including some from the Charlotte area, a state official said Wednesday.
Another 50 to 60 people have applied for compensation, but the state hasn't finished checking old files to see whether their sterilizations were authorized by the state Eugenics Commission, which was active from the 1940s to the 1960s, said Charmaine Fuller Cooper, director of the N.C. Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation.
Victims, families and a state legislator showed up at a meeting of the Governor's Eugenics Compensation Task Force on Wednesday to urge the five panelists to aggressively push the state to make up for the decades-old wrongs.
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