Also, political leaders such as W.E.B. Dubois were quoted in the Project proposal criticizing Black people in the United States for having many children and for being less intelligent than their white counterparts:
... the mass of ignorant Negroes still breed carelessly and disastrously, so that the increase among Negroes, even more than the increase among Whites, is from that part of the population least intelligent and fit, and least able to rear their children properly.[97]
Even though The Negro Project received a lot of praise from white leaders and eugenicists of the time, it is important to note that Margaret Sanger wanted to clear concerns that this was not a project to terminate African Americans.[98] To add to the clarification, she received support from prominent African American leaders such as Mary McLeod Bethune and Adam Clayton Powell Jr.[97] These leaders and many more would later serve on the Negro National Advisory Council of Planned Parenthood Federation of America in 1942.
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That was America.
Eugenics happened as well in almost every European nation, including my own with forced sterelizations (the silent genocide)....
It’s a sad fact that the popularity of Eugenics at that time, was not limited to Nazi Germany.