The Harlem YMCA is located at 180 West 135th Street between Lenox Avenue and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan...
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acting after accidentally walking onto a stage at a theater below a Harlem YMCA. Williams began pursuing an acting career after spending two years as...
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of activities could be found at the YMCA on 135th Street and the YWCA on 137th Street. The social pages of Harlem's two African-American newspapers, the...
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site Harlem River Houses, a New York City landmark Harlem YMCA, a New York City landmark Hotel Theresa, a New York City landmark Jackie Robinson YMCA Youth...
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East Harlem, also known as Spanish Harlem, Finnish Harlem or El Barrio, is a neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City, north of the Upper East...
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Harlem History Club was a study circle founded in Harlem in the 1930s and based at the Harlem YMCA. Participants included: John Henrik Clarke Willis Nathaniel...
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neighborhoods in the section of Harlem, in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Astor Row Strivers' Row Le Petit Senegal Spanish Harlem Hamilton Heights Manhattanville...
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This is a list of people from Harlem in New York City. John James Audubon – naturalist Richard Croker – Tammany Hall politician, lived at 26 Mount Morris...
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Masjid Malcolm Shabazz (category Religious buildings and structures in Harlem)
in 1964. Opened as Temple No. 7 of the Nation of Islam (NOI) at the Harlem YMCA in 1946 (all Nation of Islam sites were initially called Temples; the...
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1920s at the local Harlem YMCA. One of these productions helped the actor Paul Robeson rise to stardom. After the Guild made the YMCA their home, the place...
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Cicely Tyson (category People from Harlem)
onstage in Vinnette Carroll's production of Dark of the Moon at the Harlem YMCA in 1958. Tyson had small roles in the 1959 films Odds Against Tomorrow...
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This is a list of films shot in Harlem, in New York City. Moon Over Harlem, 1939 Paradise in Harlem, 1939 Hi De Ho, 1947 In the Street, 1948 The Cool...
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Alston assesses Lawrence's work in an essay for an exhibition at the Harlem YMCA 1938: Having thus far miraculously escaped the imprint of academic ideas...
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Hubert Thomas Delany (category Harlem Renaissance)
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the Harlem YMCA, and became an active leader in the Harlem Renaissance. He also served as a Vice President...
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played the lead role in Ridgely Torrence's play Simon the Cyrenian at the Harlem YMCA. That year she also contributed a game to the inaugural volume of The...
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94166°W / 40.814167; -73.94166 (Claude McKay Residence) New York The Harlem YMCA, whose residents included African-American writer Claude McKay 57 Metropolitan...
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Heights Historic District Harlem Harlem African Burial Ground Harlem Courthouse Harlem Fire Watchtower Harlem River Houses Harlem YMCA Harperly Hall Headquarters...
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Henry Kempton Craft (category YMCA leaders)
1932 the Executive Secretary of the Harlem YMCA on 135th Street in New York. He remained the leader of the Harlem Y for 14 years, retiring on March 1...
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Street YMCA team, he recognized that a winning team of all-star performers would help further popularize the game among African-Americans The Harlem Renaissance...
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in freehand drawing. After moving to New York City, he lived at the Harlem YMCA at 180 West 135th Street, and worked as a page for WOR, an independent...
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community workshops. The Harlem YMCA also held art classes between 1934 and 1935 led by sculptor William Artis. The idea for the Harlem Community Art Center...
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present Howard Richardson and William Berney's Dark of the Moon at the Harlem YMCA. The second production of Dark of the Moon launched the careers of several...
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22, 1896* at Harlem YMCA L 3–8 7–3 Harlem, NY Feb 27, 1896* at 23rd St. YMCA L 9–10 7–4 Manhattan, NY Feb 1, 1896* Bridgeport YMCA W 8–0 8–4 ...
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until 1943. Shields also was active in community groups, such as the Harlem YMCA, NAACP, Negro History Club, and the National Council of Negro Women....
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The Harlem riot of 1964 occurred between July 16 and 22, 1964. It began after James Powell, a 15-year-old African American, was shot and killed by police...
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Music, the Metropolitan Music School, the Tuskegee Institute, at the Harlem YMCA, and worked as a music therapist at the Alfred Alder Mental Hygiene Clinic...
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athletes during cold months. Naismith was a physical education instructor at YMCA International Training School (now known as Springfield College) in Springfield...
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Hollis Heath (category People from Harlem)
and received the Harlem YMCA Community Impact Award for “dedication to the enrichment of the Harlem Community.” "Lifelong Harlem residents pen play...
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369th Infantry Regiment (United States) (redirect from Harlem Hell Fighters)
re-organized as the 369th upon its federalization and commonly referred to as the Harlem Hellfighters, was an infantry regiment of the New York Army National Guard...
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a teacher at the Tuskegee Institute, the executive director of the Harlem YMCA from 1932 to 1946, and the field coordinator for the New York State Commission...
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