Websites

"Against Their Will: North Carolina's Sterilization Program." Winston-Salem Journal, 8-12 December 2002, 16 February 2003. Also available through: http://againsttheirwill.journalnow.com

"Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement." Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/

Newspaper Articles

"Dr. Harry Crane Takes Issue With Former President Medical Society on Sterilization." News and Observer (Raleigh), 26 May 1929, p. O7.

Chester S. Davis, "IQ Tests Show America Has Major New Problem." Winston-Salem Journal, 29 February 1948, section III, p. 1C.

Chester S. Davis, "The Case for Sterilization --- Quality Versus Quantity." Winston-Salem Journal, 7 March 1948, section III, p. 1C.

Russell Clay, "Liberalized Sterilization Law Urged." News and Observer (Raleigh), 16 August 1967, p. 1.

"Sterilization Ruling Appealed." News and Observer (Raleigh), 2 August 1975, p. 28.

"Sterilization Review Is Ordered." News and Observer (Raleigh), 10 October 1975, p. 32.

"Lawyer Charges Bias In N.C. Sterilization Law." News and Observer (Raleigh), 13 November 1975, p. 45.

Journal Articles

Schoen, Johanna. "Between Choice and Coercion: Women and the Politics of Sterilization in North Carolina, 1929-1975." Journal of Women's History 13, no. 1 (2001): 132-156. (Available to North Carolina library users through EBSCOhost's Academic Search Premier database on NC LIVE.)

Castles, Katherine. "Quiet Eugenics: Sterilization in North Carolina's Institutions for the Mentally Retarded, 1945-1965." Journal of Southern History 68, no. 4 (2002): 849-878. (Journal available at the State Library.)

Books

Ariyo, Oluwunmi. Making the "unfit" individual: analysis of the rhetoric of the Eugenics Board of North Carolina. Thesis (M.A.), Wake Forest University, 2006.

Engs, Ruth C. The Eugenics Movement: an Encyclopedia. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2005.

Noll, Steven. Feeble-Minded in Our Midst: Institutions for the Mentally Retarded in the South, 1900-1940. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.

Schoen, Johanna. A Great Thing for Poor Folks: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare in the Twentieth Century. Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1995.

Schoen, Johanna. Choice & Coercion : Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

Woodside, Moya. Sterilization in North Carolina: a Sociological and Psychological Study. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1950.

Collections

Human Betterment League of North Carolina. Records. Southern Historical Collection. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Eugenics Commission. Records. North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.
Effective August 1, 2005, the records of the Eugenics Board have been transferred from the Department of Cultural Resources to the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services. Individuals who are seeking confidential medical records, maintained by the board from 1924-1974, should contact the Office of Citizens Services of the Department of Health and Human Services at 1-800-662-7030. Federal and state law prohibit access to these medical records by anyone but the individual patients, their legal guardians, or the custodial agency.