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

  1. ↑ Reed, Toure F., Not alms but opportunity: the Urban League & the politics of racial uplift, UNC Press Books, 2008, pp 48-49
  2. ↑ Hajo, Cathy Moran (2010). Birth Control on Main Street: Organizing Clinics in the United States, 1916–1939, University of Illinois Press, p. 85.
  3. ↑ "Harlem Faces Unemployment", in Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life
  4. ↑ "JAMES H. HUBERT OF URBAN LEAGUE". New York Times. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
  5. ↑ "Hubert, James H." Virginia Commonwealth University. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
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