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“The Struggle to Mend Children’s Minds: Retardation is Under Attack Across Nation,” Ebony, September 1964

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Women reading Jet, Ebony, Life and other popular magazines in the 1950s and 1960s learned that rubella might affect the fetal development of the eyes, heart, or brain.

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