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{{Infobox politician|image_size=200| | {{Infobox politician|image_size=200|birth_name=Margaret Louise Higgins|birth_date=September 14, 1879|birth_place=Corning, [[State of New York|New York]], [[United States of America|United States]]|death_date=September 6, 1966|death_place=Tucson, [[Arizona]], United States|political_orientation=[[Liberal feminism]]|image=Margaret Sanger.png}} | ||
'''Margaret Higgins Sanger''' (September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was a Statesian birth control activist. She opened the USA's first birth control clinic in 1916, which authorities shut down ten days later. She was initially a member of the [[Socialist Party of America|Socialist Party]] and supporter of the [[Industrial Workers of the World|IWW]] but moved to the right in the 1920s and joined the [[eugenics]] movement.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Donna Goodman|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]|title=Women’s struggle for suffrage and liberation: The road to legal equality|date=2022-03-08|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/womens-movement-1910-1940/|retrieved=2023-08-12}}</ref> In 1939, she began the Negro Project to prevent the Black population from growing in the South.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Liz Lowengard|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]|title=Medicine, the ‘pill’ and the struggle for reproductive rights|date=2005-06-01|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/05-06-01-medicine-pill-struggle-reprod-html/|retrieved=2023-08-12}}</ref> | '''Margaret Higgins Sanger''' (September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was a Statesian birth control activist. She opened the USA's first birth control clinic in 1916, which authorities shut down ten days later. She was initially a member of the [[Socialist Party of America|Socialist Party]] and supporter of the [[Industrial Workers of the World|IWW]] but moved to the right in the 1920s and joined the [[eugenics]] movement.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Donna Goodman|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]|title=Women’s struggle for suffrage and liberation: The road to legal equality|date=2022-03-08|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/womens-movement-1910-1940/|retrieved=2023-08-12}}</ref> In 1939, she began the Negro Project to prevent the Black population from growing in the South.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Liz Lowengard|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]|title=Medicine, the ‘pill’ and the struggle for reproductive rights|date=2005-06-01|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/05-06-01-medicine-pill-struggle-reprod-html/|retrieved=2023-08-12}}</ref> | ||
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| Born | Margaret Louise Higgins September 14, 1879 Corning, New York, United States |
| Died | September 6, 1966 Tucson, Arizona, United States |
| Political orientation | Liberal feminism |
Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was a Statesian birth control activist. She opened the USA's first birth control clinic in 1916, which authorities shut down ten days later. She was initially a member of the Socialist Party and supporter of the IWW but moved to the right in the 1920s and joined the eugenics movement.[1] In 1939, she began the Negro Project to prevent the Black population from growing in the South.[2]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Donna Goodman (2022-03-08). "Women’s struggle for suffrage and liberation: The road to legal equality" Liberation School. Retrieved 2023-08-12.
- ↑ Liz Lowengard (2005-06-01). "Medicine, the ‘pill’ and the struggle for reproductive rights" Liberation School. Retrieved 2023-08-12.