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Ethel Byrne ( née Higgins; 1883–1955) was an American Progressive Era radical feminist. She was the younger sister of birth control activist Margaret Sanger, and assisted her in this work. Background. Ethel and Margaret were two out of eleven children of an Irish American family founded by Michael Hennessey Higgins and Anne Higgins. [1] .
Ethel Higgins Byrne (1883-1955) was an American Progressive Era radical feminist. She was the younger sister of birth control activist Margaret Sanger, and assisted her in this work.
by Margaret Henry. This article was published: in the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 13 , 1993. online in 2006. Ethel Byrne (1895-1957), physician and pathologist, was born on 28 August 1895 at Cookardinia, New South Wales, ninth child of James Byrne, schoolteacher, and his wife Margaret, née Crennan, both native-born.
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Jan 6, 2017 · Four years before women won the right to vote in the United States, Margaret Sanger — the future founder of Planned Parenthood — and her sister, Ethel Byrne, met a young Jewish immigrant named...
Mar 3, 2024 · Ethel Byrne was the first of the three women to be sentenced. Her sentence was for 30 days in a workhouse. Unpleasant, yes, but I think as a modern day woman I would just put my head down and do ...
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Jun 9, 2017 · Ethel Byrne and Margaret Sanger together founded what becomes Planned Parenthood in 1916, when they opened the first birth control clinic in the United States in Brooklyn.
Jan 30, 2021 · Herstory. Today in Feminist History: Ethel Byrne’s Force-feedings Continue (January 30, 1917) 1/30/2021 by David M. Dismore. Today in Feminist History is our daily recap of the major milestones and minor advancements that shaped women’s history in the U.S.—from suffrage to Shirley Chisholm and beyond.
