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Higher Education in Review 6.1 (2009): 33+ online. Baker, William J. "To Play or to Pray? The YMCA Question in the United Kingdom and the United States, 1850-1900." International Journal of the History of Sport 1994 11#1: 42-62
The African-American police officers also had different headquarters, a "basement of the local 'colored' YMCA". [6] The mayor and police chief wanted to separate the African-American officers for their own protection from the white officers. Their headquarters, known as Butler Street YMCA, is known as the "Black City Hall of Atlanta". [8]
YMCA, sometimes regionally called the Y, is a worldwide youth organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries.It has nearly 90,000 staff, some 920,000 volunteers and 12,000 branches worldwide. [1]
The YMCA Youth and Government program was established in 1936 in New York by Clement A. Duran, then the Boys Work Secretary for the Albany YMCA. [5] The program motto, “Democracy must be learned by each generation,” was taken from a quote by Earle T. Hawkins, the founder of the Maryland Youth and Government program.
At age fifteen Andrews moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where he lived at the Butler Street YMCA with his oldest brother. [2] In Atlanta, Andrews began working as a hospital orderly and attended high school at Booker T. Washington High School. [2] [3] Andrews graduated from Washington High School in 1952.
The church was originally founded with 39 charter members on March 15, 1903, as the first English-speaking Lutheran congregation in Atlanta (St. John's Lutheran Church, founded in 1869 as a German-speaking church, was the first Lutheran church in Atlanta). [1] [2] [3] The congregation originally held service at a local YMCA. [4]
Atlanta Review is an international poetry journal based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It was founded by Daniel Veach in 1994 and is published twice a year. Karen Head of the Georgia Institute of Technology became editor in 2016. [1] The journal's focus is poetry, but interviews and black-and-white artwork are occasionally accepted.
Ivenue Love-Stanley, FAIA, NOMA (born 1951) [1] is an American architect. [2] She co-founded Stanley, Love-Stanley P.C., an Atlanta-based architecture and design firm. [3] She was the first African-American woman to graduate from Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Architecture, and in 1983 she became the first African-American woman licensed architect in the Southeast.