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Margaret Sanger - Women who made their mark later in life
Today ends my week-long spotlight on "Women who found success later in life." I was saving this treat for last because not only was Margaret Sanger a feisty women's rights activist, but she was also an Irish American ?????
*Source: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pill-margaret-sanger-1879-1966/
It's Women's history month! All week long, I have been telling stories about women who made their mark on the world in their later years. It's never too late to start dreaming. Today, St. Patrick's Day, I would like to introduce you to an Irish American woman, Margaret Sanger.
Margaret Sanger was born in 1879 as one of 11 children in an Irish Catholic family in Corning, NY. She was devastated by her mother's death at age 50 from tuberculosis. Margaret's mother's strength was diminished to fight the disease because of birthing eleven children and surviving seven miscarriages. Margaret was just 1
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Margaret Sanger and Womens’ Rights Movements
The Library has acquired the Margaret Sanger Papers online as part of the History Vault collection of primary source material.
Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) worked to ensure that women had the knowledge and the right to practice birth control. From the publication of the Woman Rebel in 1914 through her leadership of the International Planned Parenthood Federation in the 1950s, Sanger dedicated herself to making birth control safe, available, legal, and respectable. In the process, she produced a massive body of papers–letters, journals, articles, speeches–documenting one of the most important women and most significant social movements of this century.
Sanger’s papper reveal the broad range of birth control advocates and opponents, ideological and organizational changes, and conflicts and compromises that mark the history of the modem birth control movement. Her correspondence includes exchanges with sexuell reform advocates, eugenicist
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Margaret Sanger
American birth control activist and nurse (1879–1966)
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Sanger in 1922 | |
| Born | Margaret Louise Higgins (1879-09-14)September 14, 1879 Corning, New York, U.S. |
| Died | September 6, 1966(1966-09-06) (aged 86) Tucson, Arizona, U.S. |
| Other names | Margaret Sanger Slee |
| Occupation(s) | Social reformer, sex educator, writer, nurse |
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| Children | 3 |
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Margaret Sanger (néeHiggins; September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. She opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, founded Planned Parenthood, and collaborated in the development of the first birth control pill. Sanger is regarded as a fo