Family Planning in Kentucky collection, 1938-1987 (bulk : 1938-1944).

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Family Planning in Kentucky collection, 1938-1987 (bulk : 1938-1944).

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This collection contains materials associated with the Kentucky Birth Control League and its president, Jean B. Tachau. Items include county folders concerning field work done in various Kentucky counties and contact with the doctors in those counties. The physicians' attitudes toward birth control and contraceptive supplies they ordered are noted. Correspondence to and from Lutrella Baker, Dr. Howard Ingling, and Grace Rood, R.N., of the Pine Mountain Settlement School and Line Fork Cabin is also included. The collection also contains materials, mostly newspaper clippings, from scrapbooks and notebooks documenting birth control issues and the activities of the Kentucky Birth Control League and Planned Parenthood.

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Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7532568

Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Tachau, Jean Brandeis.

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Pine Mountain Settlement School (Pine Mountain, Ky.)

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Pine Mountain Settlement School was incorporated by Katherine Pettit and Ethel DeLong in 1913 and operated as a boarding school until 1949. In addition to regular academic subjects, students were involved in traditional music and dance activities, and a labor program that helped run the school and develop useful skills. In the 1930s the curriculum was refocused towards trade professions and skills for rural community living. During the 1940s, the school temporarily came under the administration ...

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 ...

Kentucky Birth Control League

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The Kentucky Birth Control League was organized in 1933 by Jean Brandeis Tachau in Louisville as an affiliate of the American Birth Control League. The first clinic, known as the Maternal Health Clinic, was opened at the Norton Infirmary for married, white mothers in need of services for "health reasons." In 1937, the League opened its own clinic with "no restrictions, except separate days for white and colored." (Family Planning in Kentucky - A History, p. 5) The League emphasized educating the...