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Mar 24, 2021 · Margaret Sanger’s Little-Known Connection to the Ku Klux Klan. Updated March 24, 2021 | Sofia Infante. Table of Contents. Margaret Sanger and the KKK. The adage “A picture is worth a thousand words” is especially relevant in the case of a photo taken of Margaret Sanger giving a speech to the Ku Klux Klan in Silver Lake, New Jersey in 1926.
Sep 30, 2015 · Published Sept. 30, 2015. Image courtesy of Getty Images. Claim: A photograph documents Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger speaking to women of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Rating:...
May 10, 2022 · • Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, did not refer to Black women as weeds and was not a supporter of the Ku Klux Klan or a Democrat. See the sources for this fact-check
Historiography. External links. Margaret Sanger. 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.
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- September 6, 1966 (aged 86), Tucson, Arizona, U.S.
- Margaret Louise Higgins, September 14, 1879, Corning, New York, U.S.
- Ethel Byrne (sister)
Oct 5, 2017 · In Koenig’s tweet, he states that Sanger spoke at Ku Klux Klan events. Sanger’s appearance at one KKK event is well documented. Sanger wrote about the event herself in her 1938...
Oct 14, 2016 · An advocate for women’s reproductive rights who was also a vocal eugenics enthusiast, Margaret Sanger leaves a complicated legacy — and one that conservatives have periodically leveraged into...
Sanger was so intent on her mission to advocate for birth control that she chose to align herself with ideas and organizations that were ableist and white supremacist. In 1926, she spoke to the women’s auxiliary of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) at a rally in New Jersey to promote birth control methods.
