Found 2 collections related to Mental%20health%20facilities%20--%20New%20York%20(State)%20--%20New%20York

Lafargue Clinic (New York, N.Y.)
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division | Sc MG 141
1.67 linear feet (5 boxes)
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... more
Davis, Elizabeth Bishop, 1920-
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division | Sc MG 121
0.21 linear feet (1 box)
African American psychiatrist Elizabeth Bishop Davis began her career in the late 1940s with the Lafargue Clinic, the first mental health facility that primarily served African Americans in Harlem. Her father, the Rev. Shelton Hale Bishop, rector... more