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What family from Montgomery, Alabama were stripped from their home and sterilized against their will?
The Relf Family...Specifically Minnie Lee and Mary Alice.
Black people have a higher pain tolerance, both emotionally and physically.
How are the Relf girls dealing with the aftermath of their sterilization present day?
They each sleep with a baby doll that represents the child they would have had. They are depressed.
What Senator had particular interest in the Relf case, and later criticized the federal governments involvement?
This false belief was studied in the Tuskegee syphilis case.
The belief that disease manifests itself differently in Black people, and is less likely to occur.
What happened to the test subjects of the syphilis experiment after penicillin was founded to treat the illness?
They did not receive the treatment despite being told they would.
Who owned the Family Planning Clinic that the Relf girls were sterilized in? This person also defended the clinic in saying that the girls were "not disciplined enough to take daily birth control."
Orelia Dixon
False idea that resulted in involuntary sterilization (besides pain tolerance). Reason why physicians coerced sterilization upon men and especially women.
Black women are undisciplined, and that Black people should not have children.
Describe the experiment that was proceeded on John Brown, a slave, to later market a pill for sunstroke?
He was forced to sit in a pit above a hundred degree fire until he passed out.