Margaret Sanger
Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 - September 6, 1966) is an American nurse known for informing American women about birth control methods. She defied the Congressional ruling that birth control information was obscene, and distributed the pamphlet "Family Limitation" to poor women. She was forced to flee America in 1914 due to public outrage.
In 1920 she published What Every Girl Should Know, which was later widely distributed as one of the Haldeman-Julius "Little Blue Books," which not only provided basic information not only such topics as menstruation, but also acknowledged the reality of sexual feelings in adolescents.
After she returned to the country she founded the American Birth Control League in 1921 as well as Planned Parenthood of America in 1942.
In recent years, Sanger has been criticized for her outspoken advocacy of eugenics and an appearance at a Ku Klux Klan rally, both of which her critics associate with racism.
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