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Smith Receives Award From Family Planning CouncilThe Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College has received the Family Planning Council of Western Massachusetts' Margaret Sanger Award. The award recognizes an individual or organization for exceptional contributions to accessible family planning services and the furtherance of reproductive freedoms. The Sophia Smith Collection--a repository of personal papers, records of organizations and other material relating to the history of women in the United States--and the Family Planning Council (FPC) began collaborating in the preservation of records that document FPC's history in 1986. In accepting the award for the Sophia Smith Collection, assistant curator Amy E. Hague remarked that "we are used to laboring behind the scenes and expect to, so it is especially gratifying to be recognized in this way." Hague also credited the Margaret Sanger Papers Project, a joint project between Smith and New York University, for its efforts in making Sanger's papers widely available on microfilm and for doing "a great job of countering the relentless right-wing distortions of the historical record as they attempt to discredit current birth control organizations and activists." She added that "records of the contemporary movement for women's right to health and reproductive autonomy will provide the raw material for future historians to write the sequel to Margaret Sanger's story. Beyond that, if our experience with the students who are exposed to the records of social activism is any indication, [the FPC] history will help inspire new generations of activists." |
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