tony riddick:
CLASS OF 1986
Perquimans County Union SchoolClass of 1986
Winfall, NC
tony's Story
tony is from Winfall, North Carolina. tony's schools include Perquimans County Union School. tony later attended New York City Tech (Psychology) . tony works(ed) at H & R Block, H & R Block.
Music tony likes includes R. Kelly, Dilem Ma aka Top Notch, Raggaeton. Books tony likes include In Gods Hand, I love HOLY Spirit. Movies tony likes include Wicked Silence Film Project. TV shows tony likes include Inside Story Americas on Al Jazeera English, gmctv, Weeds.
More about tony:"Elaine Riddick Jessie (born Elaine Riddick in 1954) is an African-American woman who, as a 14-year-old girl in 1968, was forcibly sterilized by the Eugenics Board of North Carolina, which argued that she was "feebleminded" and "promiscuous."
Prior to the sterilization (at age 13), Jessie had been kidnapped, molested, and raped. Her son, Tony Riddick, states, "The work of the Eugenics Board was not ...Expand for more
far from the thinking of Hitler."
Jessie was living with her grandmother, Maggie Woodard|Maggie "Miss Peaches" Woodard, when a social worker discovered her pregnancy. The illiterate Woodard signed an X on a consent form, not knowing what it was, only that if she didn't sign, Elaine would be sent to an orphanage. The Perquimans County Department of Public Welfare had earlier custody of Jessie and her 7 siblings (from their alcoholic parents), sending 5 to an orphanage, and Elaine and one of her sisters to live with Woodard.
In March 2003 Mrs. Jessie and other victims of the Eugenics Board spoke out against the atrocities committed to the Eugenics Study Committee. As she said "When you're a little girl, what do you want? You want to be a mommy. To find out that's been taken away from you is devastating.".[1][2] She was prominent in the celebrations at the law's repeal.".
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