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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, most notably evident in Sanger's invitation to speak before the Silver Lake, New Jersey group.
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, most notably evident in Sanger's invitation to speak before the Silver Lake, New Jersey group.
[[Lothrop Stoddard]], a prominent birth control activist from [[Massachusetts]], was invited to the board of directors of the American Birth Control League by Sanger. According to ''Hearst's International'' in 1923, there was "documentary evidence" that Stoddard was an [[Exalted Cyclops]] of the Ku Klux Klan.<ref>1923. [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hearst_s_International/MwLnAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=lothrop+stoddard+exalted+cyclops&pg=RA1-PA10&printsec=frontcover Hearst's International: Vol. 44], p. 10. ''Google Books''. Retrieved December 12, 2022.</ref>
===Eugenics in Oregon, 1920s–40s===
===Eugenics in Oregon, 1920s–40s===