SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Margaret Sanger

1879 - 1966

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Margaret Sanger (née Higgins; September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. She opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, founded Planned Parenthood, and was instrumental in the development of the first birth control pill. Sanger is regarded as a founder and leader of the birth control movement. In the early 1900s, contraceptives, abortion, and even birth control literature were illegal in much of the U.S. Working as a nurse in the slums of New York City, Sanger often treated mothers desperate to avoid conceiving additional children, many of whom had resorted to back-alley abortions. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Margaret Sanger is the 29th most popular social activist (up from 206th in 2019), the 270th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,999th in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Margaret Sanger ranks 29 out of 840. Before her are W. E. B. Du Bois, Élie Ducommun, Sophia of Prussia, Emily Greene Balch, Guy Fawkes, and Robert Owen. After her are Shirin Ebadi, Charlotte Corday, Thích Quảng Đức, Emiliano Zapata, Bacha Khan, and Toussaint Louverture.

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Among people born in 1879, Margaret Sanger ranks 11. Before her are Paul Klee, Kazimir Malevich, Emperor Taishō, Otto Hahn, Franz von Papen, and Max von Laue. After her are Emiliano Zapata, Symon Petliura, Alma Mahler, Milutin Milanković, Hans Luther, and Rudolf von Laban. Among people deceased in 1966, Margaret Sanger ranks 5. Before her are Walt Disney, André Breton, Buster Keaton, and Anna Akhmatova. After her are Peter Debye, Georges Lemaître, Alberto Giacometti, Sepp Dietrich, Jean Arp, Sayyid Qutb, and Giuseppe Farina.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Margaret Sanger ranks 270 out of 20,380. Before her are Charles Taze Russell (1852), Dale Carnegie (1888), O. J. Simpson (1947), Kanye West (1977), Diane Keaton (1946), and Robert K. Merton (1910). After her are Beyoncé (1981), Peter Falk (1927), Gary Cooper (1901), Samuel L. Jackson (1948), Barbra Streisand (1942), and Edward Tatum (1909).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Margaret Sanger ranks 8. Before her are Malcolm X (1925), Eleanor Roosevelt (1884), Helen Keller (1880), Rosa Parks (1913), W. E. B. Du Bois (1868), and Emily Greene Balch (1867). After her are Harriet Tubman (1820), Angela Davis (1944), Jody Williams (1950), Jimmy Hoffa (1913), Jane Addams (1860), and Lee Radziwill (1933).

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