- Collection:
- Archives for Research on Women and Gender
- Title:
- Planned Parenthood Southeast scrapbook 05, 1960s
- Creator:
- Planned Parenthood Southeast
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 1960
1964
1965
1966
1967 - Subject:
- Birth control
Reproductive rights and policy
Medical care
Planned Parenthood Southeast
Planned Parenthood of the Atlanta Area - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- scrapbooks
- Type:
- Text
Still Image - Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Margaret Sanger, a practicing nurse, began Planned Parenthood New York in 1916 to provide family planning services for low income and immigrant women. Decisive legislation in the 1930's legalized birth control in New York, Vermont and Connecticut, and gradually, as legislation allowed, Sanger was able to disseminate information on birth control methods through opening health clinics across the nation. The Atlanta, Georgia affiliate of Planned Parenthood was founded in 1964 by Mrs. Herbert (Esther) Taylor. Mrs. Taylor brought together representatives of churches, professionals and businesses to organize what was then called the Planned Parenthood Association of the Atlanta Area, Inc., (PPAA) and later (in the 1980's) simply referred to as Planned Parenthood of Atlanta. At the time of PPAA's founding, Fulton County had one of the highest rates of infant mortality in the nation: statistics showed 50,000 women in greater Atlanta between the ages of 15 and 45 needed family planning services but could not afford a private physician. In 1966, the first Planned Parenthood clinic opened at the Bethlehem Community Center, and by 1974 Planned Parenthood of Atlanta was operating nine clinics throughout the Atlanta area, serving 7,000 patients a year. In 1997, clinic outreach was further expanded when Planned Parenthood of East-Central Georgia joined with Planned Parenthood of the Atlanta Area to become Planned Parenthood of Georgia. In 2010, Planned Parenthood Georgia combined with the Alabama and Mississippi affiliates, and together they became Planned Parenthood Southeast. The Planned Parenthood Action Fund of Georgia is a pro-choice advocacy organization. A separate entity from Planned Parenthood Southeast, the Action Fund's mission is to advance and defend reproductive freedom for all through fund raising for lobbyists to elect pro-choice leaders, tirelessly advocating on behalf of women, men and young people who rely on Planned Parenthood to provide reproductive choice.
Scrapbook containing newspaper clippings, documenting Planned Parenthood of the Atlanta Area, 1960-1967. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/arwg/id/536
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/arwg:536/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- These materials, gathered by the donor from many sources, have been digitized for preservation purposes and are being made available on the Internet for scholarship, educational, and personal use only. These materials document a thematic assemblage of manuscript, photographic, and printed research materials, and neither the donor nor Georgia State University claims ownership of the intellectual property rights for printed materials not created by the donor or Georgia State University. If you are a copyright holder of any part of the content and believe that that content should not be made publicly available, please contact Special Collections and Archives.
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Scrapbook 05, Planned Parenthood Southeast Records, Archives for Research on Women and Gender. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Original Collection:
- Planned Parenthood Southeast Records
https://archivesspace.library.gsu.edu/repositories/2/resources/1562
Series XIII: Audio-Visual Materials and Scrapbooks. Subseries E: Scrapbooks and Message books 1961-1994
Archives for Research on Women and Gender - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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