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1	"One of the Proudest Achievements:" Organized Birth Control in Indiana, 1870s to 1950s Sorensen, Carrie Louise January 2006 (has links) Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Local birth control advocates often found themselves attempting to open birth control clinics in restrictive climates that did not welcome open discussions of sexuality. To accomplish this, the organizers chose their tactics carefully and followed common strategies. After a few stumbles, organized birth control in many states began in earnest in the 1930s. By 1943, just ten years after its opening, the Indianapolis birth control clinic could boast that it had served 4,531 women and openly solicit funds from the community. The Maternal Health League’s plea on its fundraising brochure assured citizens of their patriotic duty to help. The league reminded Hoosiers, “In War and In Peace a Nation is as Strong as the Health of Its Mothers and Children.” Arguments such as these allowed the clinic to open and assured its existence for many years to come. Indiana birth control organizers relied on specific tactics that allowed them to accomplish their goals in a restrictive Midwestern state. Indiana’s birth control story offers modern-day readers a very different picture than that offered by studies of the national movement of birth control. Indiana offers an account that relies more on cooperation and less on confrontation. Indiana birth control Indiana Maternal Health League Planned Parenthood of Central Indiana Indiana contraceptives Maternal Health League of Indiana
2	Limitations and liabilities: Flanner House, Planned Parenthood, and African American birth control in 1950s Indianapolis Brown, Rachel Christine 09 1900 (has links) Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / This thesis analyzes the relationship between Flanner House, an African American settlement house, and Planned Parenthood of Central Indiana to determine why Flanner House director Cleo Blackburn would not allow a birth control clinic to be established at the Herman G. Morgan Health Center in 1951. Juxtaposing the scholarship of African Americans and birth control with the historiography of black settlement houses leads to the conclusion that Blackburn’s refusal to add birth control to the health center’s services had little to do with the black Indianapolis community’s opinions on birth control; instead, Flanner House was confined by conservative limitations imposed on it by white funders and organizations. The thesis examines the success of Blackburn and Freeman B. Ransom, Indianapolis’s powerful black leaders, in working within the system of limitations to establish the Morgan Health Center in 1947. Ransom and Blackburn received monetary support from the United Fund, the Indianapolis Foundation, and the U.S. Children’s Bureau, which stationed one of its physicians, Walter H. Maddux, in Indianapolis. The Center also worked as a part of the Indianapolis City Board of Health’s public health program. These organizations and individuals did not support birth control at this time and would greatly influence Blackburn’s decision about providing contraceptives. In 1951, Planned Parenthood approached Blackburn about adding birth control to the services at Morgan Health Center. Blackburn refused, citing the Catholic influence on the Flanner House board. While acknowledging the anti-birth control stance of Indianapolis Catholics, the thesis focuses on other factors that contributed to Blackburn’s decision and argues that the position of Flanner House as a black organization funded by conservative white organizations had more impact than any religious sentiment; birth control would have been a liability for the Morgan Health Center as adding contraceptives could have threatened the funding the Center needed in order to serve the African American community. Finally, the position of Planned Parenthood and Flanner House as subordinate organizations operating within the limitations of Indianapolis society are compared and found to be similar. Flanner House Herman G. Morgan Health Center Cleo Blackburn Freeman B. Ransom Walter H. Maddux Planned Parenthood Planned Parenthood of Central Indiana African Americans Indianapolis Birth Control African American Birth Control Indianapolis Philanthropy Lockefield Gardens US Children's Bureau Katherine Lenroot Social Control 1950s African American Leadership Segregation Medical Discrimination Race Suicide Settlement Houses Birth Control Clinics Contraceptives Margaret Sanger Catholics and Birth Control Conservatism Limitations United Fund Community Chest Indianapolis Foundation Eli Lilly & Company Indianapolis City Board of Health Women's History African American History Indianapolis History Race Relations

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"One of the Proudest Achievements:" Organized Birth Control in Indiana, 1870s to 1950s

Limitations and liabilities: Flanner House, Planned Parenthood, and African American birth control in 1950s Indianapolis