“We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.” - Margaret Sanger, founder of ABCL, which evolved to Planned Parenthood.
She started “The Negro Project” in 1939, with the aim of expanding birth control services for Black communities in the south, according to the New York University’s project documenting Sanger’s writings.
The NYU’s Margaret Sanger Papers Project acknowledged that Sanger was a supporter of eugenics, selective breeding with specific characteristics, and described “The Negro Project” as controversial from the onset and “constructed in terms and with perceptions that today smack of racism.”
She started “The Negro Project” in 1939, with the aim of expanding birth control services for Black communities in the south, according to the New York University’s project documenting Sanger’s writings.
The NYU’s Margaret Sanger Papers Project acknowledged that Sanger was a supporter of eugenics, selective breeding with specific characteristics, and described “The Negro Project” as controversial from the onset and “constructed in terms and with perceptions that today smack of racism.”