AdvertisementA Brutal Chapter In North Carolina's Eugenics PastDecember 28, 2011Julie RosefacebookEmailWallace Kuralt (left), the head of the Mecklenburg County welfare program in North Carolina, speaks to the Welfare Board in 1962. The county sterilized 485 people — about three times more than any other in the state. More than 7,000 people were sterilized in North Carolina. (Courtesy Charlotte Observer)