Archdeacon Griffith to Speak On Involuntary Sterilization of Women to Help With Social Problems, Oct. 25, 1919

From the front page of The Brevard News, Friday, Oct. 25, 1919. North Carolina involuntarily sterilized women until 1974. To read more about the history of the program in North Carolina, go to https://www.npr.org/2011/12/28/144375339/a-brutal-chapter-in-north-carolinas-eugenics-past

Archdeacon Griffith at Court House Sunday

Archdeacon Griffith, who is holding a preaching mission in St. Phillips Episcopal Church and who is deeply interested in all questions pertaining to eugenics, has been asked to address the people of Brevard on the subject of Heredity. So on Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock Mr. Griffith will speak in the Court House to those who are likewise interested. All ministers, lawyers, doctors, teachers, parents and thinking people in general, who are anxious for the betterment of the race are cordially invited to be present. An opportunity will be given to those present to ask questions concerning the uplift of the normal, delinquent, feebleminded and the like.

In these days of so many social problems with which the new order of the times has to deal, this talk will be timely.

Children under 15 years of age will not be admitted unless accompanied by their parents.

Mr. Griffith is not a sensationist (maybe meant sensationalist?), so noting will be said to appeal to anyone but what the subject implies, a good race of men and women. (Boldfaced type as used in the original article.)