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Sep 21, 2022 · Margaret Sanger is largely renowned for her work as an ambitious feminist leading the birth control revolution in America and, largely, around the world. However, Sanger’s motivations behind this work had dark roots in racism and eugenics, demonstrating the importance of acknowledging the dangerous rhetoric of her work and how it may have ...
May 3, 2022 · • Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, did not refer to Black women as weeds and was not a supporter of the Ku Klux Klan or a Democrat. See the sources for this fact-check
While Sanger didn't explicitly traffic in racist language, in his A History of the Birth Control Movement in America, Associate Editor of NYU's Margaret Sanger Papers Project Peter C. Engelman noted that "Sanger quite effortlessly looked the other way when others spouted racist speech.
Aug 14, 2015 · Ben Carson alleged in an interview with Fox News Wednesday that Planned Parenthood puts most of its clinics in black neighborhoods to "control the population" and that its founder, Margaret...
Jul 28, 2020 · But stubborn facts and our nation’s new scrutiny of our racial history have eroded the mythology of Sanger and laid bare her eugenics project in its racist, coercive details. Sanger called...
Jul 25, 2020 · Planned Parenthood and the complexities of anti-racism. July 25, 2020. Margaret Sanger in 1916, when she was indicted for mailing materials advocating birth control, charges that were later...
Jul 21, 2020 · The actions thrust Ms. Sanger onto a growing list of historical figures whose legacies are being re-evaluated amid both widespread protests against systemic racism and a pandemic that has...
