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N.C. Rep. Womble, champion for sterilization victims, dies

by Associated Press
| May 15, 2020 2:03 PM

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Former state Rep. Larry Womble, an educator who championed the cause of compensating North Carolina's sterilization victims from the 20th century, has died at age 78.

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