Ethel Byrne (women's rights activist)
Ethel Higgins Byrne (* 1883 in Corning , New York , † 1955 ), the youngest sister of Margaret Sanger , was an American nurse and suffragette . She was a radical activist in the birth control movement and founded the first US family planning and birth control clinic in Brownsville , Brooklyn, with Sanger and Fania Mindell in 1916 . On January 22, 1917, she was sentenced to 30 days in the workhouse and therefore went on a hunger strike . She was the first woman in the US to be force-fed and pardoned by the governor after ten of the 30 days in detention . Sanger had sworn that Byrne would never break the law again. This then withdrew from activism.
literature
- Margaret Sanger: Autobiography (1938, WW Norton & Co .; 2004, Courier Dover Publications, 504 pages, ISBN 0-486-43492-3 ; 2004, Kessinger Publishing , 508 pages, ISBN 0-7661-8143-X )
- Jill Lepore: The Secret History of Wonder Woman (2014, Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN 978-0-385-35404-2 )
Individual evidence
- ^ First woman in US given English dose (en) . In: The Seattle Star , Jan. 27, 1917, p. 1. Retrieved November 16, 2014.
- ↑ Mrs. Byrne pardoned; pledged to obey law; (en) . In: New York Times , February 2, 1917. Retrieved November 11, 2019.
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| SURNAME | Byrne, Ethel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Byrne, Ethel Higgins (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American nurse and suffragette |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Corning , New York |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1955 |