Although by 1965 many states had acted individually to end restrictions on the use and sale of birth control devices and The Pill, others continued to criminalize distribution, if not private use.   Among them was Connecticut, a New England state still in the after math of long domination by culturally very conservative Congregational clergy ( Read more... )

( Read more... )

( Read more... )

( Read more... )

( Read more... )

The ground work was laid when the Assembly voted to submit a suffrage amendment to the voters in the November 1915 election.  Catt became chair of the statewide campaign, which divide the state into two upstate districts and metropolitan New York.  Mary Garrett Hay, chair of the City party, and her associates sprang into action.  They raised $50, ( Read more... )

( Read more... )

( Read more... )

( Read more... )

( Read more... )