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Ethel Byrne (sister) Margaret Higgins Sanger (born Margaret Louise Higgins; September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966), also known as Margaret Sanger Slee, was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term "birth control", opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and ...
Dec 28, 2023 · Mrs. Ethel Byrne, following a five day-long hunger strike at Blackwell’s Island prison, is forcibly fed. January 29, 1917: Margaret Sanger and Fania Mondeil are charged with circulating birth control information. Both expect to be convicted, and both have promised to hunger strike. November 14, 1921
Mindell was born in Minsk, Russia on December 15, 1894 to Jewish parents. She emigrated to Brooklyn, New York in 1906 with her parents and family, and became a US citizen in 1919. [1] She was an accomplished artist, and became a set and costume designer for Broadway theaters in New York. [2] She translated dramatic materials from Russian to ...
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 ...
Feb 2, 2015 · Ethel Byrne, pardoned by the Governor after serving 10 days of her 30-day sentence, is at Sanger’s home recuperating from the effects of the hunger strike she began immediately after her conviction and sentencing on January 22nd, as well as the ordeal of about a dozen force-feedings, which began just after midnight on January 27th.
Jan 15, 2023 · Légende image, Une petite foule se rassemble autour de Margaret Sanger et de sa sœur, Ethel Byrne, alors qu'elles quittent la Cour des services spéciaux. Tragédie.
Jan 26, 2015 · January 26, 1917: Ethel Byrne’s condition continued to weaken this morning as she passed the 96-hour mark of her fast. Its purpose is to protest her 30-day sentence for giving out birth control information. She is being closely watched by the prison physician, and authorities say that force-feeding may begin on the 29th if she does not ...
