TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mjagkij,Nina
TI  - Light in the darkness: African Americans and the YMCA, 1852-1946 
SN  - 9780813158167
AV  - BV1190 .L544 1994
PY  - 1994///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - YMCA of the USA
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Segregation
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 2; b
N2  - From 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
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