Margaret Sanger's birth control movement and quest for the Pill intersected the rise of the eugenics movement in America. At a time when birth control was still not publicly accepted in American ...

Margaret Sanger’s work with Planned Parenthood marks a significant chapter in the history of women’s rights. Her life’s efforts to advocate for birth control and create Planned Parenthood ...

Upon her death in 1966 from heart failure, a New York Times obituary credited Sanger with pioneering the birth control movement in the United States. But her detractors have called her a eugenicist, a ...

The racism of the movement rubbed off on her ... to 30 days in the workhouse for helping Margaret in her short-lived birth control clinic. “Sanger was flummoxed,” Gorton writes, “to find ...

Margaret Sanger witnessed unwanted pregnancies ... her an early convert to the larger issues involved with the birth control movement. She recognized that there were times when it was important ...

Mr. Sanger, the grandson of Margaret Sanger, who founded the birth control movement over eighty years ago, is currently Chair of the International Planned Parenthood Council and has served as a ...

The successes of the feminist movement, and the mass entry ... but one indisputable pioneer was the activist Margaret Sanger, who coined the term “birth control” and was imprisoned in 1916 ...

Margaret Sanger was a tiny red-headed radical from ... Andrew Marr explores the significance of the birth control movement in the United States in the early 20th century. He looks at the ...

McCormick’s interest in birth control began in the 1910s, when she learned of Margaret Sanger, the feminist ... She contributed financially to the movement, and ultimately took on leadership ...