Margaret Sanger

By swymmer-girl

  • Born

  • Mother Dies

  • Sanger Goes to Claverack College and Hudson River

    For nursing training

  • Marries William Sanger

  • Moves to New York City

  • Began to publish her opinions in The Woman Rebel

    She is arrested for violating postal obscenity laws.

  • Sanger goes to England

    Left New York for England to avoid posting bail.

  • Sanger returns to New York

    William Sanger was arrested for distributing one of her pamphlets, causing her to return to New York.

  • Peggy Dies

    her daughter

  • Sanger Opens the first birth control clinic

    After nine days, it is shut down and Sanger and all the employees are arrested.

  • Margaret is legally separated from William Sanger

  • Founded the American Birth Control Federation

  • Marries James Noah Slee

  • Opened the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau

    also know as: Margaret Sanger Research Bureau

  • Forced to resign as the president of the American Birth Control Federation

  • Forms the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control

  • Tours India

    Helped launch the Indian Birth Control Movement

  • The Ameican Birth Control Federation becomes the Planned Parenthood Federation of America

    The new leadership thought the term "birth control" was to strong

  • Founded the International Planned Parenthood Federation

    Sanger is named president

  • Sanger relinquishes presidency

  • Sanger's Death

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