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First female propagandist in U.S.
If Knowlton was the first male propagandist for birth control in America, then Margaret
Sanger was the first
woman to be active in the same field. Her role in America has been compared to that of Marie
Stopes in Britain.
Mrs. Sanger was a declared socialist and took part in the various activities of the Labour
movement. She marched
with the "Wobblies" (The Industrial Workers of the World), and in 1914 began to publish a
magazine called "The
Woman Rebel," determined to make it as "red and flaming as possible." Apart from the
"Rebel," Mrs. Sanger
produced a small pamphlet called "Family Limitation".
It was soon announced that Mrs. Sanger had violated nine federal statutes; and under the
Comstock regime, the
man whose organisation, the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice made merry war
against
contraceptionists, she was prosecuted. She fled to England the day before the trial was due to
be held. She met
Marie Stopes and is said to have fallen in love with Havelock Ellis. Later she returned to
America and lived
through many tumultuous events.