The 'Negro Project'
The suffering of African Americans on the hand of physicians and scientists was also evident in the early 20th century 'eugenics'- a process of reducing the undesirable population and controlling it to not surpass the dominant race. According to Washington, "eugenics was appropriated to label black women as sexually discriminate and as bad mothers who were constrained by biology to give birth to defective children. The demonization of black parents, as medically and behaviorally unfit has a long history, but twentieth century eugenicists provided the necessary biological underpinnings to scientifically validate these benefits" (2006, 191). Margaret Sanger's birth control pioneer further contributed to the implementation of the eugenics movement, known as the 1939 "Negro Project" that attempted to reduce the African American population.
Numerous samples of birth control pioneers were tested in African American communities. It is important to note that governmental institutions supported this movement and are guilty for the death of thousands of Black women caused by the concentration of early pills that a human body could not resist.
