Building the Population Bomb
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- Bill Nye visits 1965 World's Fair whole source
Nye’s own concern about population growth had begun at the age of nine, when he visited the 1965 World’s Fair in New York with his family. T…
- International population science organization founded whole source
natural scientists and statisticians from the Americas, Europe, and Asia came together in 1928 to form an international professional organiz…
- UN World Population Conference in Bucharest whole source
American demographers, who continued to espouse family planning as a stabilizing force in an increasingly chaotic world, found themselves em…
- First World Population Conference in Geneva whole source
On August 29, 1927, the former registrar-general of England and Wales Sir Bernard Mallet welcomed invited guests to the Salle Centrale in Ge…
- Margaret Sanger arrested over The Woman Rebel whole source
She had been arrested the first time in 1914 for mailing her newsletter, The Woman Rebel, which advocated contraception as part of a feminis…
- Margaret Sanger opens the first US birth control clinic whole source
She was arrested again in 1916 for providing information about birth control through a clinic in Brooklyn
- US states enact compulsory sterilization laws whole source
Between 1907 and 1940 more than thirty states enacted such laws
- Margaret Sanger launches Birth Control Review whole source
Her new strategy took institutional form with the 1917 launch of the Birth Control Review and the 1921 establishment of the American Birth C…
- Sanger founds the American Birth Control League whole source
the 1921 establishment of the American Birth Control League (ABCL), which aimed to attach scientific authority to birth control advocacy
- Francis Walker analyzes population and immigration whole source
In 1896 Francis Amasa Walker, superintendent of the 1870 and 1880 U.S. censuses and then president of MIT