Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1879 | Born, Corning, N.Y. |
| circa 1898 | Nurses training, White Plains, N.Y. |
| 1902 | Student, Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, New York, N.Y. Married William Sanger (divorced 1920) |
| 1914 | Editor and publisher, The Woman Rebel |
| 1915 | Organized National Birth Control League |
| 1916 | Arrested and convicted for operating birth control clinic, Brownsville, New York, N.Y. |
| 1917 | Published The Case for Birth Control (New York: Modern Art. 251 pp.) |
| 1917-1928 | Editor and publisher, Birth Control Review |
| 1921 | Organized first American Birth Control Conference, New York, N.Y. Founder and first president, American Birth Control League Town Hall, New York, N.Y., public meeting raided by police |
| 1922 | Married J. Noah H. Slee |
| 1923 | Founded Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau |
| 1925 | Organized sixth International Birth Control Conference, New York, N.Y. |
| 1927 | Organized World Population Conference, Geneva, Switzerland |
| 1928-1937 | Founder and president, National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control |
| 1930-1936 | President, Birth Control International Information Centers, London, England |
| 1931 | Published My Fight for Birth Control (New York: Farrar & Rinehart. 360 pp.) |
| 1938 | Published Margaret Sanger; an Autobiography (New York: W. W. Norton. 504 pp.) |
| 1939 | Vice president, Family Planning Association, London, England Honorary chairman, Planned Parenthood Federation of America |
| 1948 | Organized Cheltenham Congress on World Population and World Resources in Relation to Family |
| 1952 | Cofounder and president emeritus, International Planned Parenthood Federation |
| 1966, Sept. 6 | Died, Tucson, Ariz. |