Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement & Women in the 1920s

LESSON PLAN FOR THIS EPISODE:
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Margaret Sanger and the birth control movement is the focus while also teaching the major changes women experienced during the 1920s, including the flappers! The amazing story of Margaret Sanger and her mission to secure birth control and contraceptives was not without controversy in her time or ours and both are explored. The episode traces Sanger's childhood into her time as a nurse serving immigrant mothers in New York City and how the horrors she experienced led her on a quest to ensure women in America had access to birth control and control over their own bodies. As a story-lecture, it also unpacks the context surrounding Sanger and covers how women in the 1920s experienced new roles and opportunities- from the free-wheeling flappers to the new working and domestic woman, and the fight for the Equal Rights Amendment.
For teachers and homeschool parents, I have resources that go with this lesson that include interactive notesheets, a quick quiz, and an extension lesson that has students analyze primary source images and photographs to compare the flapper to the previous era's Gibson Girl and then read "A Letter From a Flapper." Students answer critical thinking questions and make connections to America today!
I hope you enjoy it,
dan

[@bobqzzi]

This is really good

[@historyforhumans905]

Thanks! Appreciate that :)

[@annlang9632]

Assertive, witty and entertaining way of narrating this important historical event. This is a Great presentation!!

[@boflynn7289]

Was Margaret an advocate for the KKK or not?

[@historyforhumans905]

No. She presented about birth control to the KKK and felt pretty awkward about it. She was a eugenists but that was shockingly popular for liberals (which she was) and conservatives at the time. She was allies with many of the major civil rights leaders in America including King and DuBois. Definitely not an advocate for the KKK. They hated her.

[@boflynn7289]

@@historyforhumans905 oh how silly of me! So her giving a speech in Silver Lake, New Jersey for the women’s division of the KKK where she called them “An aroused group and a good group,” is a lie? (This info was in a book describing her 1938 autobiography.) 😗

[@user-rm1lm3rt7e]

@@boflynn7289 what gags me the most about white male conservatives is that they love to bring up the fact that Margaret Sanger was a racist and eugenicists as if y'all really care about black people and you don't that shit is so annoying

[@user-rm1lm3rt7e]

@@boflynn7289 what do you actually think you're doing by providing us with this well-known information? What does it do for you? Are you now going to advocate for the reproductive Rights of black women?

[@chayabat-tzvi1215]

She was actually anti-fascist and had a cordial relationship with the Communist Party. Originally she was a member of the Socialist Party and IWW.