Sanger worked with African American leaders and professionals who saw a need for birth control in their communities. In 1929, James H. Hubert, a Black social worker and the leader of New York's Urban League, asked Sanger to open a clinic in Harlem. Sanger secured funding from the Julius Rosenwald Fund and opened the clinic in 1930. The clinic was directed by an all African American advisory board consisting of 15 Black doctors, nurses, clergy, journalists, and social workers; the clinic exclusively employed Black doctors, nurses, and social workers. The clinic was publicized in the African American press as well as in Black churches, and it received the approval of W.E.B. Du Bois, the co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the editor of its magazine, The Crisis. Sanger did not tolerate bigotry among her staff, nor would she tolerate any refusal to work within interracial projects., Bigotry: p. 153. See also . The Harlem clinic provided contraceptives and information to thousands of African American women until it closed in the mid 1940s.
Sanger worked with African American leaders and professionals who saw a need for birth control in their communities. In, 1929, James H. Hubert a Black social worker and the leader of New York's Urban League, asked Sanger to open a clinic in Harlem. Sanger secured funding from the Julius Rosenwald Fund and opened the clinic in 1930. The clinic was directed by an all African American advisory board consisting of 15 Black doctors, nurses, clergy journalists, ,and social workers; the clinic exclusively employed Black doctors nurses, and social workers. The clinic was publicized in the African American press as well as in Black churches, and it received the approval of W.E.B. Du Bois, ,the co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the editor of its magazine, The Crisis. Sanger did not tolerate bigotry among her staff, nor would she tolerate any refusal to work within interracial projects., Bigotry: p. 153. See also . The Harlem clinic provided contraceptives and information to thousands of African American women until it closed in the mid 1940s.