Margaret Higgins Sanger
ACTIVIST / EDUCATOR / NURSE
(1879 - 1966)
Sanger was an American activist and social
reformer, promoting a woman's right to birth
control. She started her campaign to educate
woman in 1914 and published "The Woman
Rebel" promoting birth control. Sanger started
the National Committee on Federal
Legislation for Birth Control in 1929 which
sought to make it legal for doctors to freely
distribute birth control. One legal hurdle was
overcome in 1936, when the U.S. Court of
Appeal allowed birth control devices and
related materials to be imported into the
country. She established the International
Planned Parenthood Federation in 1952.
Sanger recruited Gregory Pincus, a human
reproduction expert, to work on a "magic pill".
This research project would yield the first oral
contraceptive, Enovid, which was approved by
the Food and Drug Administration in 1960.
Malti Tuda
EDUCATION ACTIVIST (Unknown)
Malti Tudu is one of many women leading the
movement across five rural states to end child
marriages in India . In community meetings
Tudu asks participants to pledge that they
won't have their daughters married underage.
After the pledging ceremonies she rallies in
their village to spread awareness of the
negative impacts the marriages have. Tudu
also leads interventions when she hears
about a planned child marriage , gathering
many community members as possible and
going to the home to advocate from the girl's
education and rights.
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