Clarence Gamble

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Big Josh, grandson of Ross' Godfather married to Sarah Merry Bradley-Gamble, was the heir of the Procter and Gamble soap company fortune. He was a Birth Control Advocate and founded Pathfinder International.

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Proposal

In 1939 Clarence Gamble and Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood wrote a proposal called "Birth Control and the Negro,".The plan obtained funding from Albert Lasker, who is often considered to be the founder of modern advertising. They denied allegations the plan was a black "extermination plot".

Quotes from the proposal:

  • "the poorer areas, particularly in the South . . . are producing alarmingly more than their share of future generations,"
  • "black children were destined to become a burden to themselves, to their family, and ultimately to the nation."

[edit] Poem

In 1947 Clarence wrote an untitled poem and send it to the North Carolina Mental Hygiene Society in the hope that it was used in pamphlets and other reading material to get support for the eugenic sterilization program of North Carolina. The society declined to use it.

Quotes from the poem[1] :

  • Once there was a MORON, that means
a person that wasn't very bright.
  • So he couldn't find a job
and the RELIEF OFFICE
had to help him out
or YEARS AND YEARS.
And one day he met
another MORON"
  • And so he MARRIED HER.
  • And soon there was a BABY,
and then ANOTHER
and ANOTHER
and ANOTHER.
And the welfare department
had to pay the family
MORE of the TAXPAYER'S
MONEY
and MORE
and MORE
and MORE
And when the children grew
up and went to school
  • ’’They had to repeat MANY
GRADES in the school,
and never learned very much
and never were able to’
GET A JOB.
  • ’’Now there was another MORON
  • ’’who went to CASWELL TRAINING
SCHOOL.
  • ’’and because his children
might be feebleminded, too,
a surgeon performed
A SIMPLE OPERATION
  • ’’And after a year or two
a JOB was found for him

[edit] Literature

Harvard's Countway Library of Medicine has the proposals of Clarence J. Gamble (and several other

[edit] External links

Mendel Newsletter Febuari 2000 About the historical relation between the birth control and the eugenics movements.


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