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Quentin Francis, director of youth development at the Ann Arbor YMCA in Michigan, takes a moment to think during the fellowship program on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. (Photo/Adria Carpenter)

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YMCA history fellows are ‘creating a usable past’ for boys and young men of color

The YMCA's Boys and Young Men of Color program helps boys and young men of…

Adria CarpenterMay 28, 2024

Men and boys wearing Indian headbands and feathers shaking hands, created between 1940 and 1969.

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‘Playing Indian’: A retrospective on the YMCA’s Indian Guides program

Ryan Bean and co-author Paul Hillmer, a professor of American history at Concordia University in…

Adria CarpenterOctober 13, 2023

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