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"Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, sex educator, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term birth control, opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger In January 1916 she was placed on trial before the United States court in New York on the charge of having sent through the mails indecent literature (about birth control), see e.g. The Evening herald., January 25, 1916, Page 4 (with photo of her and her sons).

B-59: Thank you for providing the background on Sanger as well as the reason she might have been in the news at the time. We will add some details to this record as well as to the other photos of Sanger in Flickr.

An account (with photo) of her appearance in Federal Court in New York for her trial, at which she was to represent herself, ran in the New York Press, 1/19/1916.
fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2018/New%20York%20NY%20Press/...
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Obviously with one of her sons.

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www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pill/peopleevents/p_sanger.html

Sweet like a poisoned apple.

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thanks for sharing!

Such a sympathetic face.

She doesn't look like a radical, but she was for her time..maybe that direct look at the camera was a statement. I love the way she's done her hair. :)

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