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Ethel Byrne ( née Higgins; 1883–1955) was an American Progressive Era radical feminist. She was the younger sister of birth control activist Margaret Sanger, and assisted her in this work.
Ethel Higgins Byrne. Ethel Higgins Byrne (1883-1955) was an American Progressive Era radical feminist. She was the younger sister of birth control activist Margaret Sanger, and assisted her in this work.
Jan 22, 2015 · Ethel Byrne was convicted and sentenced to 30 days in the workhouse for working at the first birth control clinic in New York in 1917. She refused to do any work and went on a hunger strike in protest of the anti-birth-control law.
Mar 3, 2024 · After arrest, Ethel Byrne went on a hunger strike. Ethel Byrne was the first of the three women to be sentenced. Her sentence was for 30 days in a workhouse.
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Ethel Byrne (1895-1957), physician and pathologist, was born on 28 August 1895 at Cookardinia, New South Wales, ninth child of James Byrne, schoolteacher, and his wife Margaret, née Crennan, both native-born.
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Jan 6, 2017 · Four years before women won the right to vote in the United States, Margaret Sanger — the future founder of Planned Parenthood — and her sister, Ethel Byrne, met a young Jewish immigrant named...
Jan 23, 2020 · Learn about Ethel Byrne, who was imprisoned in 1917 for distributing contraceptive information at the first birth control clinic in the U.S. Read how she resisted jailhouse authorities with a hunger strike and became a feminist icon.
