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Tajima-Pena, Renee

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Virginia Espino and Renee Tajima-Peña Collection of Sterilization Records

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Identifier: CSRC-0016
Abstract This collection contains court records from the 1970s federal class action lawsuit Madrigal v. Quilligan. The records were gathered by Virginia Espino and Renee Tajima-Peña from the National Archives at Riverside for their documentary, No Más Bebés.The case, Madrigal v. Quilligan, highlighted the coerced sterilization of Latina women at the Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center. It was initiated by ten Latina women against Dr. E.J. Quilligan and...
Dates: 1975-1979