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oct 26, 1916 - Women's Rights

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Margaret Sanger opens the first birth control clinic in Brooklyn and within 10 days is arrested. She continues to fight to establish women's right to control their own bodies and opens another clinic, with legal support, in 1923.

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oct 26, 1916
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~ 109 years ago

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