Biography of margaret sanger eugenics

(1879-1966)

Who Was Margaret Sanger?

In 1910, activist and social reformer Margaret Sanger moved to Greenwich Village and started a publication promoting a woman's right to birth control (a term that she coined).

Obscenity laws forced her to flee the country until 1915. In 1916, she opened the first birth control clinic in the United States. Sanger fought for women's rights for her entire life.

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She died in 1966.

Early Life

Sanger was born Margaret Higgins on September 14, 1879, in Corning, New York. She was one of 11 children born into a Roman Catholic working-class Irish American family. Her mother, Anne, had several miscarriages, and Sanger believed that all of these pregnancies took a toll on her mother's health and contributed to her early death at the age of 40 (some reports say 50).

The family lived in poverty as her father, Michael, an Irish stonemason, preferred to drink and talk politics than earn a steady wage.

Seeking a better life, Sanger attend