Planned Parenthood League, Inc. 1932-1979

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Planned Parenthood League, Inc. 1932-1979

Detroit, Michigan chapter of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, founded in 1932 as the Detroit Chapter of the Michigan Birth Control League. Minutes, correspondence, reports, surveys, newsletters, and printed material document the efforts of the Planned Parenthood League to provide birth control information and services to residents of the Detroit area

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Planned parenthood federation of America

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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 ...

Planned Parenthood League, Inc. of Detroit.

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The Detroit Chapter of the Birth Control League of Michigan was organized in 1932, one year after the founding of the Michigan Birth Control League. There had been organized efforts to provide contraceptive information in the Detroit area in the previous decade: in 1922, Margaret Sanger had lectured on the subject; and in 1927 the Mother's Clinic opened its doors to young women desiring contraceptive information. Two additional birth control clinics were established in 1931, at Harp...

Planned Parenthood League, Inc. (Detroit, Mich.)

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