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"Still, she persisted."

So inspirational. A photo montage features pioneering women, among them, #MargaretSanger.

She never succeeded in entirely eliminating blacks in America, still, she persisted:
Pushing her plan to convince blacks that it was to their benefit to reduce themselves, she proposed the "Negro Project"
She wrote of this project in a letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble. Sanger proposed a collaboration between the American Birth Control League and Sanger’s Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau.
Sanger's letter sets tones of eugenic ideology still visible within the corporate vein of @PPFA today:
"It seems to me from my experience…that while the colored Negroes have great respect for white doctors they can get closer to their own members and more or less lay their cards on the table which means their ignorance, superstitions and doubts. ...
We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. ...
We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."

No. There are still blacks alive. But #MargaretSanger, #stillshepersisted!
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