Reminiscences of Frances Hand Ferguson : oral history, 1974.

Biographical Note

Volunteer for Planned Parenthood; interviewee married Robert M. Ferguson.

Scope and Contents

Family background, education, marriage; volunteer work with Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF); ;president, PPFA, 1953-1956; vice president IPPF, 1959-1962; clinical experience with PPFA; birth control methods; relationship between PPFA and IPPF; impressions of Cass Canfield, Clarence Gamble, Alan Guttmacher, Learned Hand, Juliet Barrett Rublee.

Subjects

• Birth control.
• Ferguson, Frances Hand.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
• Reed, James, 1944- interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Women's health services.
• Women volunteers in social service--Interviews.

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