Margaret Sanger: “Birth Control and Racial Betterment” - Milestone Documents

Margaret Sanger: “Birth Control and Racial Betterment”

( 1919 ) Commentary by Esther Katz and Cathy Moran Hajo, Margaret Sanger Papers Project, New York University

Glossary

ante-natal period the period before birth
eugenists practitioners of eugenics, or efforts to improve the quality of offspring by selective breeding; usually spelled “eugenicists”
Great War World War I
poilu “hairy one”; a French infantryman
syphiletic afflicted with syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease

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