Sanger, Margaret

Margaret Sanger was an early feminist and women's rights activist who coined the term "birth control" and worked towards its legalization. Sanger started her campaign to educate women about sex in 1912 by writing a newspaper column called "What Every Girl Should Know." In 1914, Sanger started a feminist publication called The Woman Rebel, which promoted a woman's right to have birth control. The Comstock Act of 1873 prohibited the trade in and circulation of "obscene and immoral materials. She was very famous for the revolutionary books Woman and the New Race, Family Limitation, The Pivot of C...