susan: you mentioned margaret sanger. that is a name that is going to be familiar to people in the general public. who was she and what role did she play in the field of eugenics and black american population? ms. nurridin: we sort of think back on her as the founder of what now is planned parenthood. she is one of the key activists in promoting the idea that women should have reproductive autonomy and control of the reproduction through the use of birth control, which at the time did not really include the pill like we think about it now, but other kinds of devices. included education and knowledge about how the reproductive system works. she's an important figure in my dissertation because she does some really interesting collaborative work with a number of african-american intellectuals and physicians. she collaborates with dubois and a lot of local, smaller african-american organizations to develop birth-control clinics in black neighborhoods. she is this really important figure a lot of the physicians in my dissertat

margaret sanger, you can look it since the inception of planned parenthood, the black population haseen kept up 13.7% in america. it is a complete tragedy. net seven-hour category 4 30-50 years old, pennsylvania. morgan, hello. caller: to the lady that just called, lady, you need to know your history. more babies have been murdered through abortion because their father was black and their mother was white. people need to remember that same bigotry and hatred martin fell from the south, he also got when he came up to the north in boston, chicago, and it shows you that immorality, the abomination of racism in this country, is coast-to-coast, north and south. host: before you go, do you think it is the same today than 50 years ago? caller: it is worse today. we have a white supremacist in the white house as president that evangelicals helped put there. host: we also had an african-american president for two terms. yes we did, but look at what he went through. look at all the racism obama and nt through. the names they were called, the disrespect they were given, and the racist bumper st