Sanger delivered this speech at the Pioneer's Dinner of the Sixth
International Neo-Malthusian and Birth Control Conference, at the Hotel
McAlpin in New York City. Sanger was
introduced by meeting chairman Heywood Broun who
discussed…
Margaret Sanger gave this speech to open the Sixth
International Neo-Malthusian and Birth Control Conference at the Hotel
McAlpin in New York City. For a draft
version see Margaret Sanger Papers Microfilm, Library of Congress, LCM 128:267.
Sanger prepared this speech for Boston's Ford Hall
Forum on Free Speech, but because public discussion of birth control was banned in that town, Sanger stood on the stage with a gag over her
mouth while Arthur M. Schlesinger read her…