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In May 1926, Margaret Sanger spoke to a New Jersey chapter of the [[Ku Klux Klan]] to promote birth control, subsequently writing in her autobiography:<ref>Sanger, Margaret (1938). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Margaret_Sanger/dbQhAQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=ku%20klux%20klan Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography]. ''Google Books''. Retrieved December 12, 2022.</ref>
In May 1926, Margaret Sanger spoke to a New Jersey chapter of the [[Ku Klux Klan]] to promote birth control, subsequently writing in her autobiography:<ref>Sanger, Margaret (1938). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Margaret_Sanger/dbQhAQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=ku%20klux%20klan Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography]. ''Google Books''. Retrieved December 12, 2022.</ref>
{{cquote|Always to me any aroused group was a good group, and therefore I accepted an invitation to talk to the women’s branch of the Ku Klux Klan at Silver Lake, New Jersey, one of the weirdest experiences I had in lecturing.|||Autobiography of Margaret Sanger, p. 366}}
{{cquote|Always to me any aroused group was a good group, and therefore I accepted an invitation to talk to the women’s branch of the Ku Klux Klan at Silver Lake, New Jersey, one of the weirdest experiences I had in lecturing.|||Autobiography of Margaret Sanger, p. 366}}
The Second Klan, an organization which outspokenly extolled eugenics, promoted fearmongering of "inferior stock" replacing "superior" groups. Although earlier race demagogues accused upper-class women for having insufficient children, the KKK did not denounce birth control, and feared that black birth rates were too high.<ref>Gordon, Linda (October 15, 2017). ''Threat to Democracy: The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s: A Warning from History''. ''Google Books''. Retrieved December 12, 2022.</ref> Many Klan members were instead prone to supporting contraception, evident in Sanger's invitation.
===Eugenics in Oregon, 1920s–40s===
===Eugenics in Oregon, 1920s–40s===