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Negative shows a group of men and women who are y-Walk participants gathered together outside the YWCA building. The woman at the microphone, who appears to be an African American, is the chair Jenifer Williams, and the woman in the foreground on the left side of the picture is Janet Dashiel, a prize winner. Janet is possibly walking up to collect her prize. The plants behind Jenifer are probably prizes. Some of the other participants are holding balloons or have them tied down and some of the people are holding drinks. Many of them are wearing tee shirts that read: Walk for women. "YWCA 1986."On envelope 1986 Y-Walk. On Recto of duplicate photograph: "Photo F page # 100%. Photo G page 3 149%" On verso of duplicate photograph: "1986 YWCA Walk Jenifer Williams, Chair (plaid) rt. foreground. Janet Dashiel, prize winner left foreground". On large envelope holding smaller envelope used to hold the negatives: "Name: Brock, Trish. Date: 12/2-. Phone: 295-4011. "Executive Director Faith Rein (the top job had been renamed again) and President Sarah Janigian launched two annual events that heaped public attention on the association: the Y-Walk downtown in 1984, in which volunteers enlisted sponsors to raise money for YWCA programs; and TWIN, Tribute to Women and Industry, in 1985." From Fran Smith, "Breaking Ground: The Daring Women of the YWCA in the Santa Clara Valley, 1905-2005, " (2005), p.87. Jenifer Williams was a high-tech manager whose mother Iola served as San Jose's first black vice mayor. Jenifer...

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San José State University, Special Collections and Archives

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