Film screening of No Mas Bebes and discussion led by Alexandra Minn Stern.
Event sponsored by the LatinX Social Work Coalition, LANAMA, MESA, AND CCI
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.
Gallery
Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library
913 S. University Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190
University of Michigan
School of Social Work
1080 South University Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106