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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]
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- ↑ 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.