Margaret Sanger's Negro Project

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CREDIT:

Phil Advise Media Show
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BACKGROUND:

The Negro Project was widely supported by black leaders such as Mary McLeod Bethune, W. E. B. DuBois, and the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Recruiting the support of Black leadership was in fact a part of Margaret Sanger's plan. Sanger needed the buy-in of the Black leaders to legitimize her project and silence the voices of other Black men and women who stood up and spoke up in opposition to Sanger's stated goals for birth control. According to Margaret Sanger "birth control appeals to the advanced radical because it is calculated to undermine the authority of the Christian Churches" (Quoted in David Goldstein, Suicide Bent: Sangerizing America, St. Paul: Radio Replies Press, 1945, p. 103.).

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