It was as much an experiment about the effects of the disease as it was a crazy white man’s idea of a laboratory game with Black bodies.” Civil fears that the federal government is doing the same thing with Depo-Provera and Black women, but no one has hard evidence that birth control is detrimental to the young women yet. According to some of these documents I’m about to show you, some of them even thought syphilis couldn’t kill us.
“They think we can tolerate pain better than them. “Now, you know how some white folks feel about Black bodies,” Miss Pope tells Civil. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play The book, written from Civil’s first-person point of view, opens in 2016, as Civil nears retirement and reflects on what she learned over the course of her career. In 1973, a new nursing graduate, Civil Townsend, meets the girls as part of her work with the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic. In Take My Hand, the preteen girls are named Erica and India. The Relf sisters were mentally disabled children, 12 and 14 years old, respectively, when they were surgically sterilized without their knowledge. This is the context, and backdrop, of Dolen Perkins-Valdez’s affecting new novel, Take My Hand, which hones in on the horrific forced annual sterilization of between 100,000 and 150,000 recipients of welfare benefits in the 1970s, inspired by the true story of Minnie Lee and Mary Alice Relf. The history of medical mistreatment of Black people and the poor by medical professionals is as long as the history of medicine in the Americas, and unfortunately, Alabama is the home base for many of these atrocities.
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