Margaret Sanger
Guide Note:
- Margaret Sanger founded Planned Parenthood and was instrumental in legalizing birth control. She was also an advocate of eugenics, a social philosophy that believed in using selective breeding, euthanasia and sterilization to remove those who are "genetically unfit" from the population.
Fast Facts:
- Sanger was arrested approximately eight times
- Sanger believed parents should have eugenic control
- Sanger's mother went through 18 pregnancies
- Sanger had two sons and a daughter who died during childhood
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- Wikipedia: Margaret Sanger
- Planned Parenthood: Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood Founder
- New York University: Margaret Sanger Papers Project
- US News and World Report: "The Passions Behind the Pill: Helping Women in Poverty is What Drove the Development of the Oral Contraceptive"
- PBS: The Pill: Margaret Sanger
- The American Spectator: "Maggie Sanger and the Human Weeds"
- PDF File:Planned Parenthood: The Truth About Margaret Sanger
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- 1879 Birth
- 1899 Sanger Enrolled in Nursing School
- 1902 Married William Sanger
- 1912 Sanger Moved to NYC
- 1913 Sanger Separated from Her Husband
- 1914 Sanger Founded The Woman Rebel (Pro-Contraception Newsletter)
- 1914 Sanger Fled to Europe to Avoid Charges She Had Violated Postal Obscenity Laws
- 1914-1915 Sanger Has Affairs with H.G. Wells and Havelock Ellis in Europe
- 1915 Sanger Returned to the US
- 1916 Sanger Opened Her First Family Planning and Birth Control Clinic in Brooklyn
- 1916 Sanger Went to Prison for 30 Days After the Clinic was Raided
- 1916 Sanger Published What Every Girl Should Know
- 1921 Sanger Founded the American Birth Control League (ABCL), Which Later Became Planned Parenthood
- 1922 Sanger Made the First of Six Trips to Japan to Promote Birth Control with Japanese Feminist Kato Shidzue
- 1922 Sanger Married Oil Tycoon James Noah H. Slee
- 1923 Sanger Founded the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control
- 1928 Sanger Resigned as President of the ABCL
- 1930 Sanger Became President of the Birth Control International Information Center
- 1937 Sanger Became President of the Birth Control Council of America
- 1937 The National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control Was Dissolved After Birth Control, When Prescribed by Doctor, Was Legalized in Many States
- 1939-1942 Sanger Was an Honorary Delegate of the Birth Control Federation of America
- 1952-1959 Sanger Served as President of the International Planned Parenthood Federation
- Early 1960s Sanger Traveled Across the World Promoting the Birth Control Pill
- 1966 Death
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