Thursday, June 2, 2016 at 4:00pm to 7:00pm
Columbia Hall, Room 150
1215 East 13th Avenue, Eugene, OR 97403
They came to have their babies. They went home sterilized. The story of immigrant mothers who sued county doctors, the state, and the U.S. government after they were pushed into sterilizations while giving birth at the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center during the 1960s and 70s. Led by an intrepid, 26-year-old Chicana lawyer and armed with hospital records secretly gathered by a whistle-blowing young doctor, the mothers faced public exposure and stood up to powerful institutions in the name of justice.
Arts & Culture, Film/Movie, Free, Diversity and Multiculturalism, Lectures & Presentations, Discussion, Diversity, LatinX/Hispanic
School of Journalism and Communication, Oregon Humanities Center, Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies, College of Arts & Sciences, Cinema Studies, Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies, Political Science, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, School of Law, Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics
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