Scrapbooks of Planned Parenthood of Southern Arizona, 1938-1987.

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Scrapbooks of Planned Parenthood of Southern Arizona, 1938-1987.

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This collection is organized into two series: Series I. Scrapbooks: #1, 1955-1966, includes photographs of Margaret Sanger and a 1965 program for the Testimonial Dinner honoring Sanger. #2, 1959-1979, includes a feature article about Margaret Sanger and the Tucson Mother's Clinic in 1936; folded brochures; a promotional pamphlet; two reports by Planned Parenthood Center of Tucson, Inc.; and one photograph of clinic instruction. #3, 1962-1965, contains only clippings. #4, 1964-1969, also contains printed ephemera, including a report by Morris K. Udall on world population; and a lecture by B. Delworth Gardner, titled "Protein and the Pill". #5, 1965-1987, contains only clippings. #6, 1965-1971, contains only clippings. #7, 1976-1980, contains clippings and printed ephemera, including a small blueprint copy of the floor plan of Planned Parenthood on Fifth Avenue. Photographs feature identified volunteers and clinic personnel, 1978; images of new clinic ground breaking, 1977; photograph of Lew Murphy with Executive Director Ruth Green honoring Margaret Sanger Day, September 17, 1979; images of the Douglas, Arizona Clinic in 1979; photographs of the New Clinic opening with accompanying invitation, April 22, 1978; and one oversize image in Box 4. #8, 1981-1982, contains primarily photographs. Images depict the events of February 5, 1981 and speaker, Faye Wattleton, the first Afro-American President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. #9, 1982-1985, consists of photographs that feature volunteers; Christmas parties and special events; and images of the grand opening of the Douglas Arizona Clinic, June 14, 1985. Series II: Margaret Sanger Materials, 1938-1961, includes chiefly correspondence with Christine A. Bloom concerning the establishment of the clinic in Tucson.

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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 ...

Bloom, Christine A.

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Planned Parenthood of Southern Arizona.

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A small Tucson birth control clinic, known as Clʹinica para Madres or Mother's Clinic, located at 28 E. Corral Street opened in December 1934. Margaret Sanger, birth control advocate, offered her support in the establishment of the clinic and its goals to provide birth control information, products and services for woman. The clinic's name and location changed through the decades. It was known as Planned Parenthood of Tucson (1950s), Planned Parenthood Center of Tucson (1970s), and finally to Pl...

Wattleton, Faye

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Alyce Faye Wattleton was born on July 8, 1943, in St. Louis, Missouri; her mother was a traveling preacher and her father was a construction worker. While her mother traveled, Wattleton spent each school year in the care of church members in different states; before entering high school, she had not attended the same school two years in a row. In 1959, at the age of sixteen, Wattleton earned her high school diploma from Calhoun High School in Port Lavaca, Texas, where she was active in the band,...

Gardner, B. Delworth, 1928-

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Green, Ruth

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Murphy, Lew

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