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Margaret Sanger forms the "Negro" Project.

1939

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This is the first major project of the Birth Control Federation of America. Founded by white birth control advocates in consultation with many Black leaders, the project becomes a model for eugenics strategies.

To launch the project, Sanger writes a report called "Birth Control and the Negro," in which she uses "language that appealed both to eugenicists fearful of unchecked black fertility and progressives committed to shepherding African-Americans into middle-class culture" (CharliePeach, 2020). Her report outlines a birth control program geared toward the population control of those who "still breed carelessly and disastrously." The project will be disbanded in the early 1940s, and will be heralded by the federation as a success.