Bessie Louise Moses

Born: 1893

Died: USA

Country of Birth: USA

Awards: 1950 Lasker Foundation Award

Achievements: organized the first contraceptive clinic in Maryland in 1927, called the Planned Parenthood Clinic; fought to expand contraceptive services to additional communities and lobbied for the inclusion of contraceptive instruction in medical school curriculum; integral in the struggle for legislative reform of the prohibition on sending contraceptive information and materials through the mail;