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This folder contains materials created/collected by the Butler Street YMCA, which was founded in 1894 when a group of young men met in the basement of the Wheat Street Baptist Church to formalize the…

This folder contains materials created/collected by the YMCA's Urban Group, as well as other records of the North American YMCA's urban work. The majority of this collection is focused from the 1950s…

This folder contains a report and/or study collected by the New York YMCA. The collection of New York YMCA reports, studies and surveys includes both association-wide and program and branch level info…

This folder contains materials created/collected by Leo Bergman Marsh. Marsh began his YMCA career in 1928 in Detroit, where he served as assistant youth work secretary, transferring to the same posit…

This folder contains materials created/collected by the Butler Street YMCA, which was founded in 1894 when a group of young men met in the basement of the Wheat Street Baptist Church to formalize the…

This folder contains materials created/collected by the YMCA’s regional supervisory agencies. The idea of establishing regional divisions among YMCA supervisory agencies dates back to 1879 and at the…

African American high school boys from Washington D.C. who participated in a YMCA industrial boys camp, working at Salem Glass Works in Salem, New Jersey. The boys are pictured with glass bottles in w…

YMCA Colored Work Department secretaries William A. Hunton, Jesse E. Moorland, and George E. Haynes seated on a table, under a tree in Moorland's back yard

This folder contains materials created/collected by the administration of the YMCA's Army and Navy Department, later known as the Armed Services Department. This department worked to meet the recreati…

Portrait of Carrie Terrell, of the Harlem Branch YMCA, a member of the committee that started the Black Achievers program at the Harlem Branch

This folder contains materials created/collected by the YMCA’s regional supervisory agencies. The idea of establishing regional divisions among YMCA supervisory agencies dates back to 1879 and at the…

This folder contains materials created/collected by the National YMCA as part of their interracial work. During the period from 1949 to 1970, there were four National YMCA bodies commissioned to give…

Transcripts from television interviews for National Educational Television.

New York Times article highlight the two-day conference at Yale University on "The Black Woman." Mentioned in the article are Maya Angelou, Shirley Graham DuBois, and Gwendolyn Brooks. 1970.

Maya Angelou spoke at an observance of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, birthday, addressing an audience at Northrop Auditorium at the University of Minnesota. She read her poetry and recounted her experien…

The United Service Organizations (USO) was formed in the months before the United States entered World War II by a coalition of six civilian agencies to coordinate their civilian war efforts, includin…

Minutes from the Convocation and Commencement Committee for the 1960 - 1961 academic year. Includes copies of a letter criticizing the choice of Dr. Martin Luther King and Dr. Luther Weigle as speaker…

This folder contains materials created/collected by the Butler Street YMCA, which was founded in 1894 when a group of young men met in the basement of the Wheat Street Baptist Church to formalize the…

This folder contains materials created/collected by the Butler Street YMCA, which was founded in 1894 when a group of young men met in the basement of the Wheat Street Baptist Church to formalize the…

This folder contains materials created/collected by the Butler Street YMCA, which was founded in 1894 when a group of young men met in the basement of the Wheat Street Baptist Church to formalize the…