1939

Margaret Sanger’s American Birth Control League merges with Clinical Research Bureau to form Birth Control Federation of America (BCFA), which proceeded to establish the Negro Project, forerunner of Planned Parenthood clinics, a network of family planning centers for benefit of blacks, esp. black women, which sought to reduce black population by promotion of negative eugenic principles. Had support, inter alios, of Adam Clayton Powell and Martin Luther King. The clinics were so successful they live on today. Critics, including president of NAACP, saw the clinics as reminiscent of forced sterilization programs to reduce black births and eventually eliminating the race (Montgomery, 273-276).