Sanger is the founder of Planned Parenthood. In 1939 she advanced her “Negro Project” to eliminate, or at least drastically reduce, the Black population by promoting sterilization and birth ...

But in Sanger’s view, “Negro participation in Planned Parenthood means democratic participation in a democratic idea.” Sanger had long sought to back up such words with action.

And Margaret Sanger’s “Negro Project” legacy lives on. A 2008 Guttmacher Institute study found that 37 percent of abortions are performed on black women and 22 percent on Hispanic women, with the two ...

The Planned Parenthood president did not make mention of Sanger’s “Negro Project,” an initiative aimed at giving black women access to birth control.

Margaret Sanger and Marie Stopes shared an aversion to “racial darkness” — an aversion that led them to promote contraception and eugenics. LEFT: Margaret Sanger in 1917.

Sanger also worked closely with NAACP founder W.E.B. DuBois on a "Negro Project," which she viewed as a way to get safe contraception to African-Americans.

The 1916 Project, a documentary film exploring the origins of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger's ties to the racist eugenics movement and the history of the organization's connections to ...

The speeches of birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger have received scant attention. This article examines the contraceptive rhetoric in Sanger's speeches to international and US audiences. Drawing ...

New film and book explore the racist history of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, her ties to the eugenics movement and the devastating modern day implications KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 18 ...