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.
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.