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From KQBD Public Radio in San Francisco, I'm Nina Kim.

Coming up on forum, in the first half of the 20th century, California forcibly sterilized more than 20,000 people in state hospitals and other institutions.

The victims who were deemed, quote, feeble-minded or deviant and unfit to have children

were disproportionately young women and people of color.

Now the state has agreed to pay reparations to hundreds of survivors of the 70-year eugenics campaign that ended in 1979,

as well as for much more recent cases in the state's prisons.

We look at this dark chapter of California history and its Survivor's Quest for Justice.

Join us. This is Forum. I'm Nina Kim.

California forcibly sterilized 20,000 people who were deemed, quote, feeble-minded or otherwise unfit to have children under a 1909 eugenics law that remained on the books for 70 years.

Among them was Mary Franco, who was just 13 years old when she was sterilized in 34.

And joining me now is Franco's niece, Stacey Cordova Diaz, a great niece of Mary Franco.

Thank you so much for joining us.

Thank you for having me.

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