This is about an hour and 20 minutes. Would evening, ladies and gentlemen. I think we will get started. We are expecting lots more people, that we dont know what the traffic or the subway situation is. I am susan jones, i am also the director of the museum of the city of new york. I am so delighted to welcome you all here for this program. Women rebels, Margaret Sanger and the birthcontrol movement at 100, tonight, author and journalist Katha Pollitt will lead a conversation with activists and scholars. A singer viagra for, loretta ross and historian linda gordon. To mark the 100th anniversary of the Movement Possible origin in 1914, table discuss sangers legacy and the birthcontrol movement for activists today. I really do thank cspan for recognizing the importance, and being here to record tonights program. This is part of our ongoing activist new york series. All of which are sponsored by the puffin foundation. Our series is done in conjunction with an exhibition on the second floor
localcontent. Youre watching American History tv. All weekend, every weekend on cspan. Up next, a discussion about the 20th century Birth Control advocate Margaret Sanger and her legacy. We hear from a panel of historians, activists, and her own grandson. They discuss the impact of race, social class, and politics on the birthcontrol movement. This is about an hour and 20 minutes. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I think we will get started. We are expecting lots more people, but we dont know what the traffic or the subway situation is. I am Susan Henshaw jones, i am also the Ronay Menschel director of the museum of the city of new york. I am so delighted to welcome you all here for this program. Women rebels, Margaret Sanger and the birthcontrol movement at 100. Tonight, author and journalist Katha Pollitt will lead a conversation with activists and scholars of the productive Rights Movement. Sanger biographer, Ellen Chesler, reproductive justice activist loretta ross, and historia
Who said “cancel culture” was all bad? Well, of course it is, but America’s current racial reckoning has yielded at least one good fruit amidst all the Black Lives Matter-inspired chaos. Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood who was known as a proponent of eugenics and linked to sterilization of African Americans, has been cancelled.