04810cam a2200661 a 4500 lifeonline00watt CaSfIA 20250727104937.0 m o d cr|||||||||||| 961104s1996 nyuaf ob 000 0beng d 96097002 (OCoLC)1035938221 TM TMN DLC VHB NPL BAKER BTCTA YDXCP UAB CaSfIA 0345392655 : $25.00 ($35.00 Can.) 9780345392657 lccopycat n-us--- HQ764.W37 A3 1996 613.94092 W347x 21 Wattleton, Faye. Life on the line / Faye Wattleton. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine, 1996. 1 online resource (xiii, 489 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations) Replacement leaf (p. 471-472) inserted. Includes bibliographical references [473]-486. "I have never believed in the impossible," declares Wattleton, acknowledging that it is a motto she learned at her mother's knee. By any measure, Faye Wattleton has led an extraordinary life. The daughter of a black female fundamentalist preacher, Faye Wattleton went on to become the first African American president of Planned Parenthood, serving from 1978 to 1992, and the first woman to head the organization since Margaret Sanger founded it in 1916. The young Faye found strength and pride in her mother's achievements: at a time when most black women were struggling under the double repression of racism and sexism, Ozie Wattleton became a fiery fundamentalist minister who riveted congregations, both white and black, all over the country. Ozie's devotion to her calling made her a wonderful role model for her only child, but as the minister's daughter Faye was expected to be the living exemplar of her mother's teachings. Committed to her own identity, Faye chose a very different path from her mother's. A nursing student at Ohio State University and later a graduate of Columbia University's midwifery program, Wattleton dedicated herself to healing - only to be stunned by the harsh realities of women's lives in America, especially the humiliation and danger inflicted on women by illegal abortions. She joined Planned Parenthood because it offered dignity and reproductive options to women, and she rose quickly to the top of the organization. During the fourteen years of her controversial leadership, Wattleton moved Planned Parenthood into the forefront of the movement to preserve and extend women's reproductive rights, standing up to an increasingly vocal and violent right-wing opposition. This battle - waged through our judicial, legislative, and social systems - is recounted with both clarity and passion in Life on the Line. Wattleton, Faye. Planned Parenthood Federation of America Employees Biography. Birth control clinics United States Employees Biography. Women social reformers United States Biography. African American women social reformers Biography. Birth control United States. Pro-choice movement United States. Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random057/96097002.html Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0412/96097002.html https://archive.org/details/lifeonline00watt Free eBook from the Internet Archive https://openlibrary.org/books/OL1025017M Additional information and access via Open Library lifeonline00watt ark:/13960/t93784s8g