Collections Documenting Eugenics
Eugenics is another word for the selective breeding of humans. From 1929 to 1974, North Carolina’s eugenics program sterilized close to 7,600 men and women, making it impossible for them to reproduce or conceive, according to The Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation.
For additional background, please see: N.C. Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation
Special Collections & Archives (SCA, Z. Smith Reynolds Library) Resources
Biennial reports of the Eugenics Board of North Carolina 1934-1950
William Louis Poteat Papers, MS91
Student Theses (RG36):
Edgerton, Sidney Alonzo. “Eugenics, Its progress and its arch enemy”. Jr. Thesis (1911 March 1) box 9 volume 208
Rogers, Leland Oliver. “Eugenics a Social Question”. Sr. Thesis (1913) box 10 volume 213
Sawyer, Roland M. “Eugenics”. Sr. Thesis, Department of Education (1913 May 1) box 10 volume 213
Woodside, Moya. Sterilization in North Carolina: a sociological and psychological study. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1950. Special Collections – Reynolds 6th Floor (Library Use Only) HV4989 .W6 1950
Coy C. Carpenter Library and the Dorothy Carpenter Medical Archives Resources
For further information and access, please contact Dianne Johnston, Archivist
Manson Meads Collection (Executive Dean (1959-1963) and Dean (1963-1971)
Box 3: Budget and Financial Statements 1949-1954
Box 7 (Foundations) Carnegie Corporation and Medical Genetics Reports
Unlabelled box, Carpenter folder
Herndon, C. Nash Collection
Felts, John newspaper loose clippings
Subject Files: Gray Family History and Medical Genetics
Z. Smith Reynolds Library Secondary Resources
Ariyo, Oluwunmi. Making the “unfit” individual : analysis of the rhetoric of the Eugenics Board of North Carolina, 2006 (M.A., Wake Forest University)
Available Main Stacks Reynolds 8 and Special Collections Off-Site, HV4989 .A74 2006
Brown, Eugene. Eugenical sterilization in North Carolina: A brief survey of the growth of eugenical sterilization and a report on the work of the Eugenics Board of North Carolina through June 30, 1935
Available, Main Stacks – Reynolds 8 HV4989 .N63 1935
Against their will : North Carolina’s sterilization program (Winston-Salem Journal). Apalachicola, FL : Gray Oak Books, 2012. By Begos, Kevin (Kevin Paul); Deaver, Danielle.; Railey, John.; Sexton, Scott.
Available , Main Stacks – Reynolds 8 HV4989 .B44 2012
Film:
Reel South: The State of Eugenics (Aired 1/26/2017, PBS)