MARGARET SANGER. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1938). First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with a frontispiece photograph. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Sanger on the front endpaper: "Greetings & regards/to/Sidney Hillman/from/Margaret Sanger." Sidney Hillman was an American labor leader, head of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and co-founder of the American Labor Party in 1936. He was a key figure in the founding of the Congress of Industrial Organizations and in marshaling labor's support for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Item #020697
Margaret Sanger, the originator of the phrase "birth control" and its best-known advocate, sought to create equality between the sexes by freeing women from what she saw as sexual servitude. She survived Federal indictments, a brief jail term, numerous lawsuits, and hundreds of street-corner rallies and raids on her clinics to live to see much of the world accept her view that family planning is a basic human right.
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