In 1935, through Independent Aid, Doris gave $10,000 to Margaret Sanger’s National Committee for Birth Control, and $15,000 to Sanger herself. In 1936, Doris gave $15,000 to the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau, and, in a dramatic escalation, $1 million the following year to the Birth Control League. A year later, she gave another $15,000.
Doris was crucial to the cause of birth control, although her role is seldom recognised. Early in her career, Sanger could not have raised these sums for her controversial cause. What in Doris’s privileged life caused her to care about birth control?
Early in her relationship with Jimmy, Doris inevitably had questions about sexuality. She would never have been able to discuss this with her mother, because of prudery and ignorance. Falling pregnant on her…
