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Created: 2025-07-09 12:30:22 UTC

When Fannie Lou Hamer went to a hospital in 1961 to have a uterine tumor removed, she left without her reproductive organs. Dubbed a 'Mississippi appendectomy,' it was part of a statewide effort to reduce the Black population through forced sterilization.

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