Poor academic performance and alleged promiscuity served as official justifications for sterilization recommendations under North Carolina eugenics laws

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Historical Virginia eugenics legislation authorized forced sterilizations targeting institutionalized individuals classified as disabled or feeble-minded

The state of North Carolina reported approximately 7,600 forced sterilizations between 1929 and 1974

The North Carolina Eugenics Board was officially established in 1933

Following the 1930 midterm elections, President Herbert Hoover vetoed Democratic economic relief legislation before relenting under intense public pressure

In the 1930 midterm elections, the Democratic Party flipped more than 50 seats in the United States House of Representatives to secure a majority

In the 1930 midterm elections, the Democratic Party picked up eight or nine seats in the United States Senate

The market price of cotton in the Mississippi Delta collapsed in 1923

Not a single Confederate courthouse statue was erected in the state of Mississippi after the collapse of cotton prices in 1923

The United States federal government assumed control of the cotton industry through agricultural subsidies in 1933

Dozens of Confederate monuments were erected on Mississippi courthouse lawns between 1900 and 1921

Robert Clark ran as the first Black candidate for the United States Congress from Mississippi since Reconstruction in 1982

Wright Thompson's father served as a campaign manager for Robert Clark's 1982 congressional campaign in Mississippi

A cross was burned in the front yard of Wright Thompson's family home in Mississippi during Robert Clark's 1982 congressional race

In 1925, the United States Congress enacted statutory authorization for the construction of Arlington Memorial Bridge connecting Washington, D.C., to Virginia

The Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C., formerly housed industrial power plants converting coal into gas in the nineteenth century

In 1973, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) instituted an oil embargo against the United States, causing crude oil prices to quadruple

Coretta Scott King testified before the United States Congress in the 1970s regarding transitioning the United States economy away from wartime defense spending toward a peacetime economy

The Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1933, moved the start dates of presidential and congressional terms to January

In June 1979, President Jimmy Carter installed 32 solar panels on the roof of the West Wing of the White House

The Democratic Party lost approximately one thousand elected seats across federal, state, and local governments during the presidency of Barack Obama