Interview: Bertha Gruenberg

Interview: Bertha Gruenberg

Born in Austria, Bertha (Sanford) Gruenberg (1888-1987) moved with her family to Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1893 and then to Philadelphia in 1910. There, she and her husband volunteered at two settlement houses, joined the Philadelphia Ethical Society, and became involved in the women's suffrage movement. In her 1982 interview, Gruenberg shared her observations of Philadelphians, both rich and poor, and told about her participation in the suffrage movement and how in 1916 she helped stage the first Women’s Birth Control League meeting in Philadelphia.

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Charles Hardy

Bertha Gruenberg

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Blue laws (Sunday laws)

Free Library of Philadelphia

Philadelphia Ethical Society

Southwark Settlement House

Women's suffrage

Women's Birth Control League

Political corruption

Politics and government

Reproductive rights.

Religion

Antisemitism

Anti-Semitism

Cassondra Kelchner