James Henry Hubert (1886–1970) was a social worker and the Executive Secretary of the New York Urban League.Reed, Toure F., Not alms but opportunity: the Urban League & the politics of racial uplift, UNC Press Books, 2008, pp 48-49 In 1929, Hubert asked Margaret Sanger to open a birth control clinic in Harlem.Hajo, Cathy Moran (2010). Birth Control on Main Street: Organizing Clinics in the United States, 1916–1939, University of Illinois Press, p. 85. He wrote for the periodical Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life"Harlem Faces Unemployment", in Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life Hubert died on April 29, 1970, in New York at the age of 84.
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