Van Kleeck Allison
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Van Kleek Allison was a birth control activist that worked in the birth control movement in the United States
. He was arrested in Boston in July 1916, for handing out leaflets that described contraception, and sentenced to three years in prison.
Allison was the child of a wealthy New York family, and edited a radical Boston newspaper.
Birth control movement in the United States
The birth control movement in the United States was a social reform campaign to make contraception legal in America. The movement began in 1914 when a group of radicals in New York City, led by Emma Goldman, Mary Dennett, and Margaret Sanger, became concerned about the plight of poor women, who...
. He was arrested in Boston in July 1916, for handing out leaflets that described contraception, and sentenced to three years in prison.
Allison was the child of a wealthy New York family, and edited a radical Boston newspaper.