Audiotape collection of Edna Rankin McKinnon, ca.1970

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Audiotape collection of Edna Rankin McKinnon, ca.1970

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Interviews conducted by Wilma Stokely Dykeman with Edna Rankin McKinnon, birth control advocate. Includes discussion about the her childhood, travels, and family planning outreach efforts.

22 audiocassettes

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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McKinnon, Edna Rankin, 1893-

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Birth control advocate (University of Montana, B.A., 1916, LL.B., 1918), McKinnon worked with the Margaret Sanger Research Bureau (1936-1947) establishing birth control clinics around the country, was Executive Director of the Planned Parenthood Association, Chicago area (1947-1957), and a field worker for the Pathfinder Fund, a private organization for international family planning (1958-1966). In this last position she traveled in India, Africa, and the Middle East to help in the establishment...