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    Margaret Sanger was one of the most influential women of the progressive era. While both a suffragist and an avid women's rights advocate, she worked tirelessly on her goal to create a safe and effective birth control method, though many people thought her work to be evil and sacrilegious. But despite her opposition, she was in the end successful and inspired countless others in the process through her selfless work and her desire to help others. Sanger grew up in a large family and while working

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    Emma Goldman was born and raised in Lithuania and moved to America when she was a teenager. Shortly after moving to the U.S. she married and then divorced. After her failed marriage, her support of anarchism grew and she created a magazine, Mother Earth, to broadcast these ideas. However, this alarmed the government and she was quickly deported from America and moved to the Soviet Union. The United States government handled any signs of support for anarchism or communism as a threat against the nation

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    Seeger 1 Lily Seeger Mr. Zona Freshman English 25 February 2016 Margaret Sanger Margaret Sanger was a very involved woman. Her mother had a total of 18 pregnancies and died at the young age of 50. Sanger was one of the 11 children. As Sanger got older she established the first birth control clinic. Sanger is a hero because she left her nursing career to devote herself to the cause of birth control, She founded Planned Parenthood Federation of America

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    Florence Kelly was a woman who fought for the right of children labor laws, wanting for what was best. On July 22,1905, she delivered a speech that caused her way through the people by convincing what they can relate to. Kelly uses many rhetorical strategies to convey her message about child labor to the audience. From the stories she has heard to the laws, it led away to the audiences mind. When she first started the speech, she decides to give statistics of how this country actually had. This

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    focused on in her works. Margaret is the definition of nursing and is an inspirational model and leader to female nurses in addition to females in general through her works thus is the reason we choose her as our focal point for our essay. Margaret Sanger was a nurse working in New York with immigrant

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    that provides healthcare and sexual education to women, men,and kids. Planned parenthood was created by Margaret Sanger, her sister Ethel Byre, and an activist Fania Mindell, and the first center was opened October 16, 1916. The reason Sanger wanted to create centers like this was because her mother had very fragile health conditions on getting pregnant with her children. Therefore Sanger traveled to England to study birth control. Along her way to England she educated as many people as she could on

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    Jean H. Baker’s book, Margaret Sanger: A life of Passion, tells the evolution of Maggie Higgins, a child born to a catholic mother and a rebellious father in Corning, New York, to Margaret Sanger, pioneer of women's reproductive rights and strong advocate for birth control across America. This book would be of interest to anyone who wishes to learn about the origins of birth control and its effects on the ongoing controversy surrounding women's reproductive rights. Those who wish to know more about

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    Margaret Sanger was a women’s rights and eugenics advocate who we all know now as who to thank for the creation of Planned Parenthood and the creation of oral contraceptives or better known as birth control pills. Sanger has been under much scrutiny her whole life and even after her death for various reasons. The majority were from the black communities accusing her of racial genocide for her efforts in giving contraceptive information to the African-Americans. They felt that by promoting these issues

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    established by Margaret Sanger and people like her” (qtd. in Knowles 11). Margaret Sanger was a radical outspoken woman who wanted to change social norms. She was the 6th out of eleven children that lived in poor conditions, even as she struggled to go to school she made it through nursing and focused on how she could help end unwanted pregnancies due to her own personal family tragedy. She created many foundations, leagues, pamphlets, and articles concerning birth control. Margaret Sanger revolutionized

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    Fights for Women Rights The fight for women’s rights has been going on for a long time and Margaret Sanger was one of the women who this issue was her life. Her birthday is September 14, 1879 and she was born in New York (Margaret Sanger). Sanger had ten siblings, so her childhood was very busy (Margaret Sanger). Also, Margaret has went to jail fight for women’s rights(Baron 112). Margaret Sanger did many different acts that are helpful to humanity like wrote a lot of different pieces of work, started

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