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Bio

(1879-1966) Activist, author. Margaret Higgens Sanger was born in Corning, New York. She was publisher of “The Birth Control Review.”

Full Name

Margaret Sanger

Locations

Columbia

Author's Timeline


1879

BIRTH

Margaret Louise Higgins was born in Corning, New York in 1879.

1896

RESIDENCE

Sanger attended Claverack College in Claverack, New York.

1900

RESIDENCE

Sanger enrolled in a nursing program in White Plains, New York.

1912

RESIDENCE

Sanger moved to New York City, living in Manhattan.

1912

RESIDENCE

Sanger moved to New York City and lived in Manhattan.

1917

LITWORK

What Every Mother Should Know

1920

LITWORK

Woman and the New Race

1926

LITWORK

Happiness in Marriage

1928

LITWORK

Motherhood In Bondage

1931

LITWORK

My Fight for Birth Control

1938

LITWORK

Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography

1966

DEATH

Margaret Sanger died in Tucson, Arizona, in 1966.

1966

INTERMENT

Margaret Sanger is interred in Fishkill Rural Cemetery, Fishkill, New York.

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