Margaret Sanger

Katherine Hepburn narrates this film about Margaret Sanger, whose strength and purpose led her to nursing on the lower East side; to the beginning of the American birth control movement; to opening the first birth control clinic in the U.S., for which she went to jail; to travel and organizing all over the world--and a revolution in ideas and contraceptive techniques., A documentary film of Margaret Sanger's 50-year effort to bring the benefits of family planning to the women of the world. Describes her personal trials and triumphs in the social milieu of her times, and discusses the world population problems and how it has come to be recognized as one of the most urgent facing mankind.

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