MARGARET SANGER By: Erykah Moore

Birth & Death  Margaret Sanger was born on September 14 th, 1879 in Corning, New York.  She died on September 6 th, 1966 in Tucson, Arizona

Education Margaret Sanger attended Claverack College, Hudson River Institute in Claverack, New York

Progressive Era Margaret Sanger was a social reformer, sex educator, and a nurse

Progressive Era Margaret opened the first American Birth Control Clinic in Brownsville, Brooklyn Sanger’s clinic was illegal Sanger tried to reopen the clinic, but the police forced her landlord to evict her the next month, and closing it for good.

Progressive Era Margaret Sanger formed the American Birth Control League Sanger was an early feminist, and women’s rights activist.

Interests Margaret’s feminist/ socialist interests coupled with her nursing, led her to write “What a girl should know”. It is about female sexuality and social hygiene The New York Call banned her article on venereal disease as obscene Her general interest in sex education and women’s health soon focused on family limitation

Works In 1920, Margaret Sanger wrote “Women and the New Race”. She wrote that birth control was ‘nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit” In 1922, she wrote “the Pivot of civilization”. She attacked charity as counterproductive, and dangerous for helping the poor to produce even more “human waste”

Quotes Margaret Sanger said, “No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother”

Quotes Margaret also said, “A free race cannot be born of slave mothers” Margaret Sanger was trying to get rid of the “unfit”

How she changed society Margaret Sanger changed society by creating a birth control clinic. Women who did not want to have an unplanned parenthood, would get birth control so they can have a planned parenthood.

How she changed society She was successful at her reform because if women wanted to have a planned parenthood, the women could get birth control and they would have a planned and happy parenthood She was unsuccessful because she was trying to get rid of all the other races, or as she said, trying to get rid of the “unfit”. There is no need to get rid of any other race. We all bleed the same blood, have the same bones and organs. So why, should we try to get rid of innocent people?