Endnotes

1 Jael Miriam Silliman, et al.,Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice. (Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2004).

2 Dorothy E. Roberts, Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (New York: Vintage Books, 1999).

3 Ross, Loretta J. "African-American Women and Abortion: A Neglected History." Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 3, no. 2 (1992): 274-284

Ross, Loretta J. "African-American Women and Abortion." Abortion Wars: A Half Century of Struggle, 1950–2000, ed. Rickie Solinger (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998).

4 Ross, "African-American Women and Abortion: A Neglected History."

Lerner, Gerda. “Early Community Work of Black Club Women.” The Journal of Negro History, vol. 59, no. 2, 1974, pp. 158–167.

5 Ross, "African-American Women and Abortion."

6 Roberts, Dorothy. "Black Women and the Pill." Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 32, no. 2, 2000, pp. 92-93.

7 Ross, "African-American Women and Abortion: A Neglected History."

8 Loretta J. Ross, “A Simple Human Right; The History Of Black Women And Abortion
,” On the Issues Magazine, 1994, available from http://www.ontheissuesmagazine.com/1994spring/spring1994_Ross.php

9 Roberts, “Black Women and the Pill,” 93.

10 Jael Miriam Silliman, et al., Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice. (Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2004), 7.

11 Ross, "African-American Women and Abortion: A Neglected History," 283.

12 Ross, "African-American Women and Abortion: A Neglected History," 282.

13 Loretta Ross, “Dr. Dorothy Height, A Sister Whose Shoulders We Stand On,”http://msmagazine.com/blog/2010/04/21/dr-dorothy-height-a-sister-whose-shoulders-we-stand-on/.

14 Dorothy Roberts. “Black Women and the Pill,” 92.

15 Margaret Sanger, "WHY THE WOMAN REBEL?" The Woman Rebel, 1, no.1 (March 1914): 7.

16 Act of March 3, 1873, ch. 258, 2 Stat., 599. Retrieved fromhttps://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=002/llsl002.db&recNum=41

17 Baskin, Alex. Woman Rebel. Archives of Social History, 1976.

18 Fawcett, James Waldo. Jailed for Birth Control: the Trial of William Sanger, September 10, 1915. [New York: The Birth Control Review], 1917.

19 Sullivan, Taylor, “One Hundredth Anniversary of the Brownsville Clinic—A MediaOpportunity ,”Margaret Sanger Papers Project , October 14, 2016, available from https://sangerpapers.wordpress.com/tag/brownsville-clinic/

20 Sanger, Margaret, and Alex Baskin. Woman Rebel. (New York: Archives of Social History, 1976.)

21 Ordover, Nancy. American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003).

22 Weingarten, Karen. “The Inadvertent Alliance of Anthony Comstock and Margaret Sanger: Abortion, Freedom, and Class in Modern America.” Feminist Formations, vol. 22, no. 2, 2010, pp. 42–59.

23 Ordover.

24 Alexander Sanger. “Eugenics, Race, and Margaret Sanger Revisited: Reproductive Freedom for All?” Hypatia, vol. 22, no. 2, 2007, pp. 210–217.

25 Ordover.

26 Ordover. 

27 Roberts, Dorothy. "Margaret Sanger and the racial origins of the birth control movement." Racially writing the republic: Racists, Race Rebels, and Transformations of American Identity, edited by Bruce Baum and Duchess Harris,196-213 (New Haven: Duke University Press, 2009).

28 Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, (Boston: Beacon Press, 2015) 2.

29 Trouillot, 25.

30 Trouillot.

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"The Colored Women’s Club Movement" https://www.nwhm.org/resources/general/african-american-reformers

"National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC)" http://nacwc.org/history

""quality and not mere quantity." " http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b208-i052 [Black folk and birth control]