Search Strategies & Selected Articles

The links below provide access to a sampling of articles from historic newspapers that can be found in Chronicling America. You can further explore the topic of "Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement " using the following search strategies:

Use the following terms in combination, proximity, or as a phrase:
birth control, Comstock laws, contraception, eugenics, family limitation, reproductive rights, Margaret Sanger, Sanger, Woman Rebel.
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Selected Articles from Chronicling America

"Woman Rebel" Set Against Poor People Having Large Families"
The Day Book (Chicago, IL), March 13, 1915, Noon Edition, Page 1, Image 1, col. 1.
"Birth Control Is Aim of New League"
The Day Book (Chicago, IL), May 12, 1915, Noon Edition, Page 1, Image 1, col. 1.
"Anarchists in Wild Defiance Curse Judges in Court"
The Evening World (New York, NY), September 10, 1915, Final Edition, Page 1, Image 1, col. 5.
"Bollinger Baby Case Agitation May Carry Birth Control Fight to Congress"
The Day Book (Chicago, IL), November 29, 1915, Last Edition, Page 30, Image 30, col. 1.
"Threat of Prison Won't Stop "Woman Rebel" From Advocating "Birth Control"
The Day Book (Chicago, IL), January 13, 1916, Noon Edition, Page 14, Image 14, col. 1.
"Birth Control Advocate Is On Way to Chicago--Will Explain Doctrine"
The Day Book (Chicago, IL), April 1, 1916, Last Edition, Page 8, Image 8, col. 1.
"Margaret Sanger Says Officials Might Just As Well Accept Birth Control"
The Day Book (Chicago, IL), October 21, 1916, Last Edition, Page 1, Image 1, col. 1.
"Doctors Against Legalizing Birth Control"
The Day Book (Chicago, IL), December 27, 1916, Last Edition, Page 5, Image 5, col. 2.
"Sex Ignorance Called Menace of Poor by Judge Stelk"
The Day Book (Chicago, IL), December 29, 1916, Last Edition, Page 1, Image 1, col. 1.
"New York Birth Control Rebel is Fed Forciby--Mrs. Sanger Explains Fight"
The Day Book (Chicago, IL), January 27, 1917, Last Edition, Page 30, Image 30, col. 1.
"Margaret Sanger on Trial - Will Hunger Strike"
The Day Book (Chicago, IL), January 29, 1917, Last Edition, Page 29, Image 29, col. 1.
"Women Leaders in Birth Control Rally are Freed"
The Evening World (New York, NY), November 14, 1921, Final Extra, Page 3, Image 3, col. 1.
"Woman Advocate of Birth Control Put Under Arrest"
The Evening World (New York, NY), December 2, 1921, Final Extra, Page 1, Image 1, col. 7.
"Japan Will Permit Mrs. Sanger to Land"
The Evening World (New York, NY), February 20, 1922, Final Edition, Page 4, Image 4, col. 2.
"Mrs. Sanger as Japan Sees Her"
New-York Tribune (New York, NY), May 14, 1922, Page 5, Image 59, col. 1.

Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement: Topics in Chronicling America

Search Strategies & Selected Articles

Selected Articles from Chronicling America