Summary of World War Work of the American YMCA
Author: National War Work Council, Y.M.C.A. of the United States
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 262
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Author: National War Work Council, Y.M.C.A. of the United States
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 262
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: National War Work Council, Y.M.C.A. of the United States
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 262
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anonymous
Publisher: Palala Press
Published: 2018-02-16
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781377741413
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Author: National War Work Council, Y.M.C.A. of the United States
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 239
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: [Young Men's Christian Associations Nat
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Published: 2016-08-28
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781372454899
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jeffrey C. Copeland
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2018-03-24
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1498548210
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) is best known for its athletic and youth programs, a heritage that draws on its origins in 1844 to provide wholesome recreation to urban youth away from the moral decay of industrialized urban living. Before long, that uplift mission found a place in the American Civil War, and soon the Y had spread all over the world by the early twentieth century, and in every major war thereafter as well. The YMCA at War: Collaboration and Conflict during the World Wars is the first collection of scholarship to examine the YMCA’s efforts during the World Wars of the twentieth century, which proved to be a bastion of support to soldiers and civilians around the world. The YMCA deployed hundreds of thousands of its much-vaunted secretaries to support suffering civilians and ease soldiers’ wartime hardships. Joining forces with governments, other civic organizations, and individuals, the Y could be either an indispensable auxiliary or an arms-length nuisance. In all cases, its support had a significant byproduct: for every person it befriended, the Y invariably made an enemy with an opposing party, its patrons, its sponsor, or at times, all three. The YMCA at War offers fresh, timely research in an international and comparative perspective from scholars around the world that evaluates this conflict and collaboration during the World Wars.
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 824
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Guoqi Xu
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2011-02-18
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 0674049993
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese laborers, mostly illiterate peasants from north China, came voluntarily and worked in Europe longer than any other group. Xu explores China's reasons for sending its citizens to help the British and French (and, later, the Americans), the backgrounds of the workers, their difficult transit to Europe---across the Pacific, through Canada, and over the Atlantic---and their experiences with the Allied armies. It was the first encounter with Westerners for most of these Chinese peasants, and Xu also considers the story from their perspective: how they understood this distant war, the racism and suspicion they faced, and their attempts to hold on to their culture so far from home. --
Author: Nina Mjagkij
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2021-10-21
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 081318505X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the time of its emergence in the United States in 1852, the Young Men's Christian Association excluded blacks from membership in white branches but encouraged them to form their own associations and to join the Christian brotherhood on "separate but equal" terms. Nina Mjagkij's book, the first comprehensive study of African Americans in the YMCA, is a compelling account of hope and success in the face of adversity. African American men, faced with emasculation through lynchings, disenfranchisement, race riots, and Jim Crow laws, hoped that separate YMCAs would provide the opportunity to exercise their manhood and joined in large numbers, particularly members of the educated elite. Although separate black YMCAs were the product of discrimination and segregation, to African Americans they symbolized the power of racial solidarity, representing a "light in the darkness" of racism. By the early twentieth century there existed a network of black-controlled associations that increasingly challenged the YMCA to end segregation. But not until World War II did the organization, in response to growing protest, pass a resolution urging white associations to end Jim Crowism. Using previously untapped sources, Nina Mjagkij traces the YMCA's changing racial policies and practices and examines the evolution of African American associations and their leadership from slavery to desegregation. Here is a vivid and moving portrayal of African Americans struggling to build black-controlled institutions in their search for cultural self-determination. Light in the Darkness uncovers an important aspect of the struggle for racial advancement and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the African American experience.
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 540
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