On October 26, 1916, the Brownsville Clinic, the first birth control clinic in the U.S., was raided by police just ten days after opening. Founders Margaret Sanger, Ethel Byrne, and Fania Mindell were arrested. Mindell, a 22-year-old immigrant from Minsk, played a crucial role by translating for the local Yiddish-speaking community, helping over 100 women access the clinic on its first day. At the time, Brownsville was a poor neighborhood in New York, where birth control and abortion were illega