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1935

• The N.C. General Assembly made the first small appropriation to the Eugenics Board for expenses.

1937

• The N.C. General Assembly amended the sterilization law to read that a county superintendent of public welfare may act as prosecutor or petitioner in instituting sterilizations.

 

• Wickliffe Draper founded the Pioneer Fund to support scientific research on race differences.

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spacer The Pioneer Fund

1938

Dr. Clarence Gamble worked with Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger on the "Negro Project," an effort that led to North Carolina providing the first government-sponsored birth control program in the nation.

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spacer Planned Parenthood Federation of America

spacerThe Margaret Sanger Papers Project

1941

The Department of Medical Genetics is founded at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine using a $15,000 grant from the Carnegie Foundation. Dr. William Allan is named the director.

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