James H. Hubert
James Henry Hubert (1886-1970) was a social worker and the Executive Secretary of the New York Urban League.[1] In 1929, Hubert asked Margaret Sanger to open a birth control clinic in Harlem.[2] He wrote for the periodical Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life[3] Hubert died on April 29, 1970 in New York at the age of 84.[4][5]
Notes[]
- ^ Reed, Toure F., Not alms but opportunity: the Urban League & the politics of racial uplift, UNC Press Books, 2008, pp 48-49
- ^ Hajo, Cathy Moran (2010). Birth Control on Main Street: Organizing Clinics in the United States, 1916–1939, University of Illinois Press, p. 85.
- ^ "Harlem Faces Unemployment", in Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life"
- ^ "JAMES H. HUBERT OF URBAN LEAGUE". New York Times. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
- ^ "Hubert, James H." Virginia Commonwealth University. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
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- American social workers
- 1886 births
- 1970 deaths