Found 1 collection related to Lafargue Clinic (New York, N.Y.)

Lafargue Clinic was founded in 1946 as the first mental health clinic in Harlem by the well-known psychiatrist Fredric Wertham (director of the mental hygiene clinic at Queens General Hospital), along with novelist Richard Wright and Earl Brown, a staff writer for Life. The collection consists of material regarding the founding and operation of the clinic. less