• The Harlem YWCA in New York, USA, was founded in 1905, moving to its own premises in 1921. It played an important role in developing training and careers...
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    until her death she was a member of the Committee of Management of the Harlem YWCA, influencing development of training in beauty skills to young women...
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    corporate cultures. YWCA USA was founded as the Young Women's Christian Association in New York City in 1858. In 1905, the Harlem YWCA hired the first Black...
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    fall of 1948. While studying at Juilliard that year, she lived in the Harlem YWCA, which was safe and affordable accommodation open to black women.: 72 ...
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  • Transportation Systems Center Cecelia Cabaniss Saunders 1903 director of Harlem YWCA, 1914-1947 Lorenzo Dow Turner 1910 linguist and Chair, African Studies...
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    Black YWCA, 1905–1945. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674007789. Wintz, Cary D., ed. (January 2007). Harlem Speaks: A Living History of the Harlem Renaissance...
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  • System and was the founder-director of the Colored Players Guild at the Harlem YWCA. She collaborated with W. E. B. Dubois on the 1913 production of his...
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    could be found at the YMCA on 135th Street and the YWCA on 137th Street. The social pages of Harlem's two African-American newspapers, the New York Age...
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    re-organized as the 369th upon its federalization and commonly referred to as the Harlem Hellfighters, was an infantry regiment of the New York Army National Guard...
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    African-American civil rights leader, and executive director of the Harlem, New York YWCA. She is best known for working against racial discrimination in...
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