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Margaret Sanger

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Margaret Sanger
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Born
Margaret Louise Higgins

September 14, 1879
Corning, New York, United States
DiedSeptember 6, 1966
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Political orientationLiberal 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]

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