Margaret Sanger, pioneer of contraception

1879 Margaret Sanger (d. September 6, 1966), author (The Pivot of Civilization) and founder of Planned Parenthood and the birth-control movement in general. She was also the lover of English socialist/activist and science fiction author HG Wells (1866 - 1946).

Having anarchist tendencies, Sanger also participated in the Patterson Textile Strike of 1913 which she wrote about in Hippolyte Havel's Revolutionary Almanac. She contributed articles to Havel's Revolt, Emma Goldman's Mother Earth, Alexander Berkman's The Blast and Modern School magazine ...

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