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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.
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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Jan 22, 2020 · “I intend to go on a hunger strike. Furthermore, I do not intend to do a stroke of work at the institution,” Byrne said defiantly after sentencing. The three-judge panel’s edict was read by Justice Garvin: Ethel Byrne, you have been convicted, after trial of violating Section 1142 of the penal law.
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.
Jan 8, 2015 · January 8, 1917: Ethel Byrne was found guilty today of violating New York State’s anti-birth-control law while working at her sister Margaret Sanger’s birth control clinic when it was raided on October 25th.
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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.
