The Lafargue Clinic becomes the first Black mental health clinic in the United States and challenges the racism embedded in American psychiatry.
The Lafargue Mental Health Clinic (Norman grantee 1947–1950) was founded in 1946 in the basement of St. Philip’s Episcopal Church in Harlem — the result of Black intellectual activism, progressive psychiatry, and the radical Black church tradition. Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham,…