Word: sanger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Foreign Travels. In 1922 Mrs. Sanger started her foreign voyages of propaganda. Of all her successes against the tides of human propagation she is proudest of the birth control leagues and clinics in teeming Japan and China...
...When Margaret Sanger's first marriage became unhappy, she occupied herself with public health nursing and decided that poverty, debility and big families went together. In 1914 she invented the phrase Birth Control and founded a magazine, The Woman Rebel, to propagate the idea. Dumfounded police, egged on by shocked churchmen and politicians, swore out a warrant for her arrest. She ran away to England...
...England she met Marie Carmichael Slopes, doctor of science and of philosophy, who was writing a book called Married Love because her marriage to Dr. R. R. Gates was unconsummated and she was trying to reason out what was wrong with the pair of them. Mrs. Sanger gave Dr. Stopes practical advice on contraceptives after which the two went shopping in London for material and information and Dr. Stopes got an annulment of her marriage. Result was that Married Love acquired validity and became a mighty fulcrum for birth control in England...
...Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the U. S. in Brooklyn. She distributed circulars in English, Yiddish and Italian offering help to neighborhood women. Police arrested her, got her a 30-day jail sentence. Thereafter she became cautious in her public activities...
Next big step occurred in 1928, when she founded the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control which last week failed to make a handful of Congressmen think the way Mrs. Sanger wanted them to think...