{"id":2926,"date":"2025-09-12T10:34:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T14:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/on-the-line\/volume-17-issue-2-copy\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T14:18:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T18:18:32","slug":"volume-18-issue-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/on-the-line\/volume-18-issue-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Volume 18, Number 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Volume 18, Number 1<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Feature 1: &#8220;Making Democracy Real: African American Women, Birth Control, and Social Justice 1910-1960&#8221;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/making-democracy-real\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/254\/2019\/04\/6491-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-825\" style=\"width:661px;height:auto\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><em>Dr. Dorothy Ferebee draws a blood sample at a mobile clinic in Mississippi where Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority members incorporated birth control information into basic health care they provided periodically for tenant farmers and sharecroppers, 1938. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Health Committee. Miscellaneous Organizations, Sophia Smith Collection.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/making-democracy-real\/\">This website<\/a> offers a historical overview of African American women\u2019s efforts to gain access to contraception in the first half of the twentieth century. With embedded archival documents providing evidence of the many parties involved in the politics of sexual and reproductive health and rights through those decades, the birth control struggle becomes a window on racial, gender, and economic obstacles black women negotiated in pursuit of bodily autonomy. Taking us back a century, and with emphasis on agency and resilience, the story connects us with the deep roots and broad vision of black women\u2019s leadership in what has become a women-of-color-led human rights movement for reproductive justice today.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014Joyce C. 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