![]() Before the trial, she had been best known as Margaret Sanger’s more conservative rival for leadership of the birth control movement. mail.ĭennett, 57, was likely aware of the irony in this situation. ![]() Mary Ware Dennett had written it 14 years earlier, and now, on April 23, 1929, she was on trial for having sent it through the U.S. The document at issue was a pamphlet called The Sex Side of Life: An Explanation for Young People. Wilkinson, read aloud a document she had written-a document that, according to the indictment, was “obscene, lewd, lascivious and filthy, vile and indecent.” Addressing the 12 men in the jury box, Wilkinson read it in a low monotone, except for the parts that seemed to offend him most for these, his voice rose to a louder and more dramatic register. In the courtroom in downtown Brooklyn, she sat silently as the prosecutor, James E. The defendant was a gray-haired grandmother. ![]() ( New York Journal-American Collection, Harry Ransom Center, University Of Texas) Mary Dennett’s belief that birth control should be widely available brought her into conflict with the law. ![]()
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