Records of the Planned Parenthood Center of Pittsburgh, 1923-1980 (bulk 1930-1949, 1974-1980).

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Records of the Planned Parenthood Center of Pittsburgh, 1923-1980 (bulk 1930-1949, 1974-1980).

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This collection contains history, by-laws, correspondence, minutes, pamphlets, brochures, scrapbooks (1930-1949). Correspondence includes letters with the American Birth Control League (New York) and holds one TLS from Margaret Sanger, dated March 2, 1923. Collection also contains 9 photographic images of Sanger in India, with six showing Sanger with Mahatma Ghandi.

2 cubic ft.

University of Pittsburgh

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University of Pittsburgh

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Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966

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Margaret Louise Higgins was born in Corning, New York, on September 15, 1879, the sixth of eleven children and the third of four daughters born to Anne Purcell Higgins and Michael Hennessey Higgins, a stone mason. Her two elder sisters worked to supplement the family income, and financed her education at Claverack College, a private coeducational preparatory school in the Catskills. After leaving Claverack, Higgins took a job teaching first grade to immigrant children, but decided after a short ...

American Birth Control League

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American Birth Control League (ABCL) was an organization founded in New York City in 1921 by birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger (1879-1966). It was a national voluntary organization to promote birth control via public education, legislative reform, medical contraceptive research, and provision of services. Affiliated units were: Birth Control Review, Clinical Research Bureau, American Birth Control League Congressional Committee, American Birth Control League Speaker's Bureau, American Birth ...

Planned Parenthood Center of Pittsburgh.

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The Planned Parenthood Center of Pittsburgh, Inc. was established in 1930 as the Birth Control League of Allegheny County and was an indirect successor to the earlier associations, The Birth Control League of Western Pennsylvania and the Allegheny County Birth Control League. The goals of the Birth Control League of Allegheny County as identified in the 1930 Directory of Community Services in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County were: to develop and organize on sound eugenic and medical principles an...

Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948), called Mahatma Gandhi, was the charismatic leader who brought the cause of India's independence from British colonial rule to world attention. His philosophy of non-violence, for which he coined the term satyagraha, influenced both nationalist and international movements for peaceful change. Gandhi's principle of satyagraha (from Sanskrit satya: truth, and graha: grasp/hold), often translated as "way of truth" or "pursui...