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Comstock Law passed
"parent" act -
Margaret Sanger born
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Married William Sanger
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Wrote "What Every Girl Should Know"
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Separated from William
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Published The Woman Rebel
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Indicted for violating postal obscenity laws
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World War I Begins
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Published "Family Limitation"
Pamphlet describing the different methods of contraception -
Visited the Dutch birth control clinic
First introduced to diaphragm -
William Sanger jailed
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Opened the nation's first birth control clinic in Brooklyn
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Published Birth Control Review
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World War I Ends
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Published Woman and the New Race
This book advocated contraception as the only means to prevent overpopulation. -
Opened American Birth Control League
She became associated with the reactionary wing of the eugenics movement. -
Married Noah Slee
He was the main funder of the birth control movement. -
Opened Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau
Doctor-run clinic -
Formed National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control
She lobbied to grant physicians the right to legally disseminate contraceptives. -
Cofounded the Birth Control International Information Centre
Cofounded with British feminist Edith How-Martyn -
Physicians exempt from Comstock Law's ban
Ban on importation of birth control materials -
Merging of organizations into Birth Control Federation of America
This organization was renamed Planned Parenthood Federation of America. -
World War II Begins
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World War II Ends
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Founded International Planned Parenthood Federation
Was president until 1959 -
Development of the birth control pill
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Griswold v Connecticut
This Supreme Court decision made birth control legal for married couples! -
Margaret Sanger Died
