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1900
Jan. 1, 1898
Margaret Sanger Begins Mission
1920
1940
1930
1910
Oct. 16, 1916
Sanger opens first birth control clinic in Brooklyn.
Jan. 1, 1918
Condoms are legalized after WWI troops start bringing them back from war from Europe
1921
American Birth Control League founded by Sanger. Later becomes Planned Parenthood
1923
Clinical Research Bureau,
first legal birth control clinic
1930
The Catholic Church reaffirms teaching against contraception. Anglican bishops approve limited use of it.
1938
A judge lifts the federal obscenity ban on birth control, but contraception remains illegal in most states
Women's Sexual Revolution
1900-1940
1910
Washington State adopts women's suffrage
1912
Woman suffrage is supported for the first time at the national level by Theodore Roosevelt’s Bull Moose Party
1920
19th amendment passed
Women's voting right ratified
1911
Triangle Shirt Waist factory fire
1912
Bread and Roses strike
1906
Alice Guy-Blanche
Published first film