In 1929

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founded the First Humanist Society of New York whose advisory board included

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, and

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. Potter was a minister from the Unitarian tradition and in 1930 he and his wife, Clara Cook Potter, published '' Humanism: A New Religion''. Throughout the 1930s Potter was a well-known advocate of women's rights, access to birth control, "civil divorce laws", and an end to capital punishment.

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