The SURGICAL SOLUTION:THE WRITINGS OF ACTIVIST PHYSICIANS IN THE EARLY DAYS OF EUGENICAL STERILIZATION.

Prospectives in Biology and Medicine: 1983 summer, 26(4):637-56

This was at the end of the message, just under 'for further study'.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if this did happen to Dr. Carver as a child. I've heard personal accounts of sterilization, specifically in Mississippi and Louisiana. Fannie Lou Hamer was sterilized against her will and without her knowledge.