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Margaret Sanger. The Margaret Sanger Award was an honor awarded annually by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America from 1966 to 2015. [1] Created to honor the legacy of Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, it is the Federation's highest honor. It is given to individuals to recognize excellence and leadership in the ...
Martin Luther King Jr. praised Sanger's work in his acceptance speech for the 1966 Margaret Sanger Award: "[Sanger] went into the slums and set up a birth control clinic, and for this deed she went to jail because she was violating an unjust law.... She launched a movement which is obeying a higher law to preserve human life under humane ...
Martin Luther King Jr. at the podium on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963 The sermons and speeches of Martin Luther King Jr. , comprise an extensive catalog of American writing and oratory – some of which are internationally well-known, while others remain unheralded and await rediscovery.
Despite being a revered leader of the civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was actually conflict avoidant, says biographer Jonathan Eig. In an interview published by NPR’s Book of ...
After the passing of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King was determined to continue his legacy. Mrs. King became a well-credited Women's Rights activist.
She visited Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. while he sat in jail, as well as spent a night with civil rights activist Medgar Evers under armed guard. [14] [11] In 1950, she wrote the original complaint in the case of Brown v. Board of Education. The first African-American woman ever to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court, in Meredith v.
Martin Luther King III was joined by President Joe Biden and Reverend Al Sharpton, honoring those they say helped continue the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and petitioning the nation to ...
On March 27, 2009, Clinton received the Margaret Sanger Award from the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, [32] which the organization says "recognize[s] leadership, excellence, and outstanding contributions to the reproductive health and rights movement."