papers (documents)

Scope and Contents Documents concerning issues of race, civil rights and racism internal and external to the YWCA of the U.S.A. including black power, Apartheid in South Africa, a consultation on black leadership in the YWCA of the U.S.A., and integration and desegregation. In the 1960's the YWCA of the U.S.A. increases its push towards an integrated movement and public affairs platforms concerning civil rights through programming, education and activism. Though civil rights and racism have long been a part of...

Scope and Contents Documents concerning the YWCA of the U.S.A.'s programs and initiatives fighting racism, student movement actions against racism, a study of interracial Y-Teen conferences, and additional documents concerning interracial policy, committees and education efforts. Through the YWCA of the U.S.A. One Imperative passed at the 1970 national convention, the YWCA of the U.S.A. made the elimination of racism their priority for the following triennium. Program packets, pamphlets and correspondence...

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Papers presented by students enrolled in the National Training School of the YWCA of the U.S.A. Papers cover a wide range of topics concerning the YWCA of the U.S.A. including the movement's history in the United States, international aspects of the YWCA, YWCA of the U.S.A. conventions, the development of programs for constituent groups, the development of local and national movements and leadership. Papers are arranged alphabetically by author's last name.