Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez Summary
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In 1973 Alabama, a nurse discovers two Black girls sterilized without consent. NAACP Award-winning "Take My Hand" exposes America's dark reproductive injustice history that The Washington Post called "a jewel" - not merely entertainment but essential truth-telling about medical abuse and redemption.
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A Medical Tragedy Etched in History
Civil Townsend steps into her first nursing job at Montgomery Family Planning Clinic in 1973 with noble intentions. Fresh from nursing school, this daughter of a respected Black doctor believes she'll empower young Black women through reproductive healthcare. But her idealism crashes against harsh reality when she meets her first patients: sisters India and Erica Williams, just eleven and thirteen years old, already receiving birth control shots. The girls live in abject poverty-a wooden shanty with dirt floors and no running water-cared for by their grandmother and father, Mace, after their mother's death. Civil is immediately troubled. Why would children this young need contraception? More disturbing still, eleven-year-old India hasn't even started menstruating. As Civil drives away from that first visit, she's shaken to her core, questioning not just their medical care but the entire system that would administer birth control to children without addressing their basic needs. She couldn't possibly know that this case would haunt her for the next forty-three years, becoming a pivotal chapter in America's dark history of reproductive injustice.
Beyond Professional Boundaries
The Shadows of Medical Experimentation
An Unforgivable Violation
The Fight for Justice
The Long Shadow of Trauma
The Weight of Memory and Hope
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