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Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood and a leader in the U.S. eugenics movement (click here to read about eugenics in N.C. and here to sample eugenics literature), discussing Planned Parenthood’s “Negro Project”: [We propose to] hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approachContinue Reading

By chance I was doing some additional research on eugenics and found this “defense” of Margaret Sanger (founder of Planned Parenthood) and her association with eugenics.  The following is from Planned Parenthood Affiliates of New Jersey: Although Sanger uniformly repudiated the racist exploitation of eugenics principles, she agreed with the “progressives” of her day whoContinue Reading