Organized in 1901 by Reverend C.T. Walker of the Mount Olivet Baptist Church as the Colored Men’s Branch, this branch first started in mid-Manhattan. It was later moved to the Harlem area and its name changed in 1919 to the One Hundred-Thirty Fifth Street Branch. In 1933 it opened a new building, and two years later took the name Harlem Branch...
Creator:
Harlem Branch YMCA
Created:
1930 - 1931; 1947 - 1962; 1966 - 1971
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
This folder contans materials created by/collected about Max Yergan, born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1892. He became an officer in the Student Christian movement in 1915, beginning a 25-year long association with the YMCA. With the outbreak of World War I, he was sent to organize YMCA units among the African regiments that the British Army wa...
Creator:
Yergan, Max, 1892-1975
Created:
1927 - 1930
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.