Margaret Higgins [Margaret Sanger]; Michael Higgins; Anne Higgins; Higgins children
Synopsis
When Margaret's mother dies of tuberculosis, Margaret leaves prep school to care for the younger children. But she clashes with her father... whose freethinking does not extend to his home... leaves Corning, and enters nurse training in White Plains.
Margaret Sanger; Bill Sanger; Grant Sanger; Stuart Sanger; Peggy Sanger
Synopsis
Despite tuberculosis, Margaret and Bill have three children even as she continues working as a nurse. Family life bores her. When they lose their house in a fire, she engineers a move to the "Bohemian" setting of Greenwich Village.
Margaret Sanger; Anita Block; Emma Goldman; Alexander Berkman [Sasha Berkman]; Big Bill Haywood; Jessie Ashley; Bill Sanger [William Sanger]; Ethel Higgins [Ethel Byrne]; Anthony Comstock
Synopsis
Bill and Margaret join reforming and radical causes. Margaret lectures and publishes on women's health, but Anthony Comstock censors her writing as obscene.
Sadie Sachs pleads for birth control advice, but Margaret evades the issue. When Sadie dies from a second self-induced abortion, Margaret commits herself to attack the problem at the root.
Margaret Sanger; Carlo Tresca; Big Bill Haywood; Bill Sanger; strikers; police; artists; Mabel Dodge
Synopsis
Margaret joins in the Lowell textile strike and other pro-labor actions, and studies birth control. Disgusted with the free-love atmosphere of the radical circle, Bill insists that they move to Paris where he can study art. But Margaret soon decides to take the children home and start a radical women's paper.
Margaret Sanger; Bill Sanger [William Sanger]; Michael Higgins; federal agents; judge; newsboy; members of Heterodoxy; Margaret's lover
Synopsis
Margaret Sanger begins publishing "The Woman Rebel," promoting radicalism and providing information on birth control. After she is brought to court, she decides to flee the country.
Margaret Sanger; Havelock Ellis; Lorenzo Portet; Dr. Drysdale; Mrs. Drysdale; Bill Sanger [William Sanger]; police agent; Anthony Comstock; Judge McInerey
Synopsis
In Europe, Margaret Sanger meets fellow radicals, engages in an affair with Lorenzo Portet, and studies birth control methods. Despite Margaret's demand for a divorce, Bill continues to support her cause, willingly going to jail for providing birth control information.
Margaret Sanger; Peggy Sanger; judges; lawyers; doctors; supporters
Synopsis
Margaret returns to America to go to trial, but is devastated when her daughter dies. She refuses to compromise in any way. As her support grows nationwide, the charges are dismissed.
Margaret and two others open a birth control clinic in Brooklyn. Patients flood in, but police send in a policewoman spy, then arrest the operators and close the clinic.
Margaret Sanger; Ethel Byrne; Fania Mindell; Jonah J. Goldstein; Justice McInerey; warden; governor; supporters; prisoners
Synopsis
Convicted and sent to prison, Ethel goes on a hunger strike. Margaret whips up support, but as Ethel sinks into a coma Margaret pledges to the governor that Ethel will no longer agitate. Ethel recovers, and Margaret serves her own sentence. Public opinion swings in their favor, but the laws remain unchanged.
Margaret Sanger; Theodore Roosevelt; Eugene V. Debs; Big Bill Haywood; Dr. Marie Equi; Billy Williams; Fredrick Blossom; Walter Roberts; Kitty Marion; Juliet Rublee; Havelock Ellis; H. G. Wells; Hugh de Selincourt; police; Bill Sanger; J. Noah Slee
Synopsis
Margaret Sanger dedicates herself to propaganda and continues in her dedication to free love. She is divorced from Bill Sanger and marries J. Noah Slee, but only after he signs a contract agreeing to an open marriage.
Margaret Sanger; Marcus Garvey; the Reverend Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.; W.E.B. DuBois; Adolf Hitler; Eleanor Roosevelt; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.; Mary McLeod Bethune
Synopsis
Examines and evaluates, and in some cases debunks, various charges made against Sanger.
Margaret Sanger; Stuart Sanger; Dr. Gregory Pincus; Katherine McCormick
Synopsis
Sanger helps enable creation of the birth control pill, and sees the Supreme Court begin striking down laws against birth control, before her death in 1966.
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