Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution · SITE OF MEMORY · 1973

The Relf sisters (1973)

14 Jun 1973 — At a federally funded clinic in Montgomery, sisters Minnie Lee and Mary Alice Relf, aged twelve and fourteen, are surgically sterilised after their mother, who could not read, marks an X on a form. Their case exposes the coerced sterilisation of poor women.

When: 14 Jun 1973
Type: Site of memory
Chapter: Black and Chicana feminism (chapter 4 of Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution)
Atlas: Protest and Change: Second-Wave Feminism and Tunisia, 1945–2015

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