Dan Christian's Blog – February 2012 Archive (3)

Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was an American sex educator, nurse, and birth control activist. Sanger coined the term birth control, opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established Planned Parenthood. Sanger's efforts contributed to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case which legalized contraception in the United States. Her famous article, The Case for Birth Control, was first published in the WOMAN CITIZEN, Volume 8, February…

On February 21, 1828, the first printing press designed to use Sequoyah's newly invented Cherokee alphabet (a system representing each syllable in the Cherokee language with a separate written character) arrives at New Echota, Georgia. Within months, the first Indian language newspaper, called the Cherokee Phoenix, appeared in print.



To celebrate this phenomenal achievement and to remind us how poorly we have treated our Native…

The Literacy Council of Sarasota is having its annual Author's Luncheon on Friday, February 17th, 2012. James E. Duffy, former President of ABC Television network and co-founder of Project Literacy US, will speak.  A. Parker's Books and Book Bazaar have donated a $50 Gift Certificate as a door-prize for this worthy organization.…