Margaret Sanger on "the Negro"

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Jan 29 14:36:28 PST 2001


[quoted by Sam Smith in the Progressive Review]

MARGARET SANGER IN A LETTER TO DR. CLARENCE GAMBLE, Dec 19, 1939: 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.



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