Tag Archives: Margaret Sanger

How Britain rescued scientists from Nazi tyranny

April 2, 2021

JMS Pearce Hull, England   Fig 1. Signatories to Letter to The Times, 22 May 1933 In March 1933 while visiting Vienna, William Beveridge, Director of the London School of Economics, learned that Hitler had just decreed it illegal for “non-Aryan,” mostly Jewish people to hold posts in the Civil Service. Many lawyers, doctors, and […]

William Sanger – the artist as health activist

January 24, 2017

Markley Boyer Glenmoore, Pennsylvania, United States   Peggy, by William Sanger  Courtesy of Alexander Sanger Margaret Sanger (1879-1966), birth control advocate, founder of Planned Parenthood and acknowledged leader in the quest for female reproductive freedom was one of the principal health and women’s right’s figures of the last century. Rebellious, unconventional, and with often unyielding […]