UMedia

start over

Description:: This folder contains materials created/collected by the Big Brothers of America's National Study and Planning Committee. The National Study and Planning Committee, chaired by Kenneth Rogers and Joseph McCoy, surveyed local organizations to collect information about the nature of existing organizations and to plan for the structure and function o...
Creator:: Big Brothers of America
Created:: 1940
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
Page Count:: 60
Last Updated:: 2018-12-02

Description:: YMCA work with and by blacks began in 1853 when Anthony Bowen established the first ""colored"" association in Washington D.C. As Anthony Bowen's work in the 1850s indicates, African Americans embraced the YMCA early on. By the late 1860s, the YMCA found a firm foothold in the community with associations established in New York City, Philadelphi...
Creator:: National Council of the Young Men's Christian Associations of the United States of America. Colored Work Department.
Created:: 1940
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Page Count:: 99
Last Updated:: 2023-01-12

Description:: View of the front exterior of Swatez Dry Goods Store, which was part of the vibrant business community that served the North Side neighborhood during it's heyday from the 1920s through the 1950s. The store was at the corner of 6th Street and Girard Avenue North, and sold clothes, shoes and housewares.
Created:: 1940
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Last Updated:: 2017-11-17