[Roundtable discussion on Preventive Checks for Population Growth]
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<p>This roundtable discussion, led by Margaret Sanger included John Randal Baker, Guy Irving Burch, Robert Emmet Chaddock, Robert Hamilton Coats, Walter Russell Crocker, Henry Pratt Fairchild, Ernst Freund, Corrado Gini, Harold Foote Gosnell, Mr. Hooker, Ellsworth Huntington, Oscar Edward Kiessling, Robert Rene Kuczynski, Leverett Samuel Lyon, Mrs. McLean, Shiroshi Nasu, Fielding William Ogburn, Mr. Okada, Raymond Pearl, Edward Byron Reuter, Mrs. Rich, Edward Allsworth Ross, Margaret Sanger, Samuel Johnson Schultz, Mr. Schuman, Mr. Simpson, Mr. Smith, Thomas Vernor Smith, Mr. Stehlc, Jesse Fredrick Steiner, Mr. Simon, Mr. Swen, Mr. A. E. Taylor, Mr. G. Taylor, Paul Schuster Taylor, Warren Simpson Thompson, Phillip Green Wright, Mrs. Q. Wright, Sewall Wright, Rachelle Yarros, Quincy Wright.</p>
<p>The discussion focused on three points: 1. The general principles underlying the practice of birth control; 2. The extent and growth of birth control in England and the United States, including effects on the birth rate, laws, and clinical studies of birth control clinic patients; and 3. The role of birth control in the problems of population, including a more even distribution of wealth, increases in production and control of the birth rate. Other points raised were whether birth control practice was an inevitable result of civilization and whether population growth rate can be lowered without birth control</p>
<p>Portions of the transcript that did not include the participation of Sanger were omitted by the MSPP.</p>
Margaret Sanger
<span class="testimony">Norman Wait Harris Memorial Foundation, Sixth Institute: Population and Migration, Round Table on 'Preventive Checks to Population Growth,"</span>, June 21, 1929. Norman Harris Foundation Records, Box 5, pp. 203-253, University of Chicago Library
1926-06-21
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Kuczynski, Robert Rene
Ross, Edward Allsworth
Fairchild, Henry Pratt
Ogburn, William Fielding
Crocker, Walter Russell
Taylor, Paul Schuster
Lyon, Leverett Samuel>
Wright, Quincy
Wright, Phillip Green
Margaret Sanger Papers Project
Huntington, Ellsworth
Smith, Thomas Vernor
Burch, Guy Irving
Baker, John Randal
Dawson, Bertrand E.
Latin
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[Speech to the North Harlem Community Forum]
<p>Sanger spoke to the North Harlem Community Forum at the 135 Street branch of the
New York Public Library on March 1, 1923.</p>
Margaret Sanger
<span class="article">"Birth Control Advocate Speaks to Large Audience at Public Library,"</span>
<span class="newspaper"><span class="italics">New York Amsterdam News,</span></span> Mar. 7 1923.
1923-03-01
New York Amsterdam News
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