The case for painting Sanger as a eugenicist, or even a sympathizer, is pretty weak. Anti-abortion activists have been trying to make that argument for decades, but it just doesn't fit.

The case is much stronger with W.E.B Du Bois. Neither applied Social Darwinian thinking in racial dimensions, though. And that seems to be what puts Millikan over the top. His racial animus seems to have been rather typical of whites back then. (And arguably up until the 1980s or later!) On the other hand, his aggressive advocacy for applied eugenics seems exceptional, and therefore arguably places more culpability for the harms upon his shoulders. But eugenics doesn't play well in public debates; racism is what revs people's engines, especially on the left. So not surprising how people keep hammering on his racism.

Indeed: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/22/us/margaret-sanger-planned-pa...