Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger started what became known as the Negro Project in order to reduce the black population through birth control.50 Sanger was a Malthusian eugenicist who believed black and brown people were inherently inferior. Her first achievement among the black community came in 1923 when she opened a clinic in Harlem, where she “hired African American doctors, nurses, and an all-black advisory council to help her clients feel more at ease—and more inclined to listen to her birth control propaganda.”51 She also relied on black clergy to advance her message.52 Today
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