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YMCA urban work records. Urban Group Executives' Meetings & Notes A, 1970 - 1971 (Box 6, Folder 3)

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This folder contains materials created/collected by the YMCA's Urban Group, as well as other records of the North American YMCA's urban work. The majority of this collection is focused from the 1950s through the 1970s, when the urban population of the United States grew rapidly. Major topics include race relations and institutional inequality, youth services and outreach, prevention of drug use and crime, war work and war affected persons, human services programs, varying social conditions in the city, experimental programs, and the integration of international programs into urban work. Among the programs are urban renewal, the revitalization of dead and ailing YMCAs, the development of hub cities, work in the inner cities, the metropolitanization of the United States, 3 urban metropolitan experimental clusters, the development of YMCA metro centers and war work in cities. Race relations is a major topic of this collection. Material includes several reports, studies, and a conference documenting race relations in the city and in the YMCA itself, institutional racism and the social, and economic conditions of African Americans in the United States.
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