{"id":3245,"date":"2023-02-25T19:48:50","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T23:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=3245"},"modified":"2023-02-25T19:48:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T23:48:53","slug":"black-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=3245","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I am fortunate to attend the YMCA on 14th Street and 6th Avenue in New York City. The following information comes from the Y’s posters celebrating Black History Month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jackie Robinson, William Hunton, Anthony Bowen. Are any of these names familiar to you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1947 Jackie Robinson was the first Black major league baseball player. He and Roy Campanella volunteered at the Harlem YMCA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

William Hunton, the son of a freed slave, was the first employed YMCA secretary at a “Colored YMCA”. Mr. Hunton worked among the soldiers during the Spanish American War. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anthony Bowen was a freed slave and the first Black clerk in the U. S. patent office. He founded the first YMCA for the Black community in Washington D. C.<\/p>\n

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