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Why was Emma Goldman arrested at the Forward in 1916? Blame a law cited by the Supreme Court Tuesday
Emma Goldman, a prominent Jewish anarchist, was arrested at the Forward Building in 1916 for speaking about birth control, a subject deemed illegal under the Comstock Act of 1873.
This article tells the story of the author's great-grandparents, Louis and Frannie Weiner, who were involved in a bootleg contraception operation in the 1920s when birth control was illegal.