Against Their Will: North Carolina's Sterilization Program and the campaign for reparations;

For more than 40 years North Carolina ran one of the nation's largest and most aggressive sterilization programs. It expanded after World War II with help from a wealthy New Yorker and a Harvard professor who was also an heir to the Procter & Gamble fortune, even as most other states pulled back in light of the horrors of Hitler's Germany.
The victims were wives and daughters. Sisters. Unwed mothers. Children. Even a 10-year-old boy. Some were blind or mentally retarded. Toward the end they were mostly black and poor. This award-winning series in the Winston-Salem Journal led to an apology from the North Carolina governor and the first legislation in the nation seeking to compensate victims of eugenics, or involuntary sterilization.
A team of reporters combined original research and interviews with victims with work done by historians Johanna Schoen and Paul Lombardo to produce a detailed expose of the eugenics program.
After the series was published, the Journal's editorial page began a campaign to bring attention to the needs of surviving victims of the program.
Now available as a book for the first time, Against Their Will has drawn praise from civil rights leaders, historians, journalists, and the general public.