Papers, 1959-1975

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Papers, 1959-1975

Correspondence; minutes, bylaws, etc., of Ruth Proskauer Smith, advocate of family planning and legal abortion.

2 cartons, 1+1/2 file boxes, 1 folio folder

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Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978

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National Abortion Rights Action League

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In 1921 Margaret Sanger founded the national lobbying organization, American Birth Control League (ABCL) which in 1942 became Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). Between 1921 and 1942 the organization underwent two transformations. In 1923 Sanger opened the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau (BCCRB) for the purposes of dispensing contraceptives under the supervision of licensed physicians and studying their effectiveness. The ABCL provided institutional backing for ...

McCarthy, Eugene, 1916-

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Means, Cyril C., Jr.

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Burns, James Macgregor

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Muskie, Edmund S., 1914-1996

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Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963

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Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968

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The daughter of Joseph M. and Alice (Naumburg) Proskauer, Ruth (Proskauer) Smith was born in Deal, New Jersey, on August 14, 1907. She attended the Ethical Culture School in New York City, and Radcliffe College, where she received her bachelor's degree in 1929 and her master's degree in fine arts in 1932. RPS married Theodore Smith on June 11, 1932; the couple had two children and were divorced in 1946. RPS began her involvement in the family planning and abortion rights...

Kennedy, Edward Moore, 1932-2009

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Edward Moore Kennedy (b. Feb. 22, 1932, Boston, Mass.-d. Aug. 25, 2009), graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in government in 1956, and received his LL.B. from the University of Virginia in 1959. He served in the United States Army from 1951 to 1953. He was elected democratic senator from Massachusetts in 1962, served until his death in August 2009. He was the Assistant District Attorney for Suffolk County from 1961 to 1962, and sought the Democratic nomination for president in 1980....