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		<title>Online Resource: Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click here to visit an online archive drawing on materials from the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor (the center of American eugenics research from 1910-1940). The archive contains photos, reports, articles, charts, etc. representing the history of the American Eugenics movement. Although the focus is not on women of color (as is the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mississippiappendectomy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2021324&#038;post=65&#038;subd=mississippiappendectomy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Short Video on Forced Sterilization of Native American Women</title>
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		<title>Elaine Riddick Trent</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[  At the age of 19 Elaine Riddick Trent learned that she would never be able to conceive and bear a child of her own. Her sterility was the result of a tubal ligation performed on her without her knowledge or consent 5 years earlier.  Trent&#8217;s sterilization was performed on March 1, 1968 during her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mississippiappendectomy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2021324&#038;post=56&#038;subd=mississippiappendectomy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>3 excerpts of survivor testimonies from Madrigal v. Quilligan case</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following testimonies were featured in Jessica Enoch&#8217;s (2005) study of the Madrigal v. Quilligan case. Jovita Rivera, Helena Orozco, and Maria Hurtado were 3 of the 10 plaintiffs in the Madrigal v. Quilligan case who were sterilized at the USC-LA Medical Center between 1971 and 1974 without their informed consent :   Jovita Rivera: &#8220;While I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mississippiappendectomy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2021324&#038;post=52&#038;subd=mississippiappendectomy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) was the youngest of 20 children in her family. She began picking cotton at age 6 and left school at age 13 in order to help support her family full-time. In 1942, Ms. Hamer married, settled in Sunflower County, Mississippi as a sharecropper (her husband drove a tractor, and she worked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mississippiappendectomy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2021324&#038;post=13&#038;subd=mississippiappendectomy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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