[1] He went back to UNC and studied social work and in 1945 took a job as the Director of Public Welfare in Mecklenburg County.
[1] Kuralt believed that government should take an active role in public welfare and his views were shaped by the policies of the New Deal.
He successfully lobbied for reform of North Carolina's abortion laws and pioneered the distribution of the pill and other birth control methods, including voluntary sterilization.
403 Mecklenburg residents ordered sterilized by the N.C. Eugenics Board at the request of the county welfare department under Kuralt's leadership.
To the end, he maintained his belief in the correctness of sterilisation and birth control as a means of eradicating poverty.