Family planning services in 1960s

“ . . . the new prominence that family planning gained in the 1960s created tensions between white supporters of the new programs and many African Americans. . . . The low participation of white clients in some programs seemed to bolster the charge of racial genocide regardless of whether segregation resulted from the targeting of black clients for family planning or from the continued refusal of white women to visit integrated services” (Schoen, loc. 959).