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As the major national biracial women's organization, the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) provided a unique venue for women to respond to American race relations during the first half of the twentieth century. In Christian Sisterhood, Race Relations, and the YWCA, 1906-46, Nancy Marie Robertson shows how women of both races employed different understandings of "Christian sisterhood" in their responses. Although the YWCA was segregated at the local level, African American women were able to effectively challenge white women over YWCA racial policies and practices. Robertson argues that from 1906 through 1946, many white women in the association went from seeing segregation as compat...
Peter DeMaris (d. 1777) emigrated from the Palatinate of Germany to Philadelphia in 1749, and settled in New Jersey. Descendants lived throughout the United States. Appendixes are primarily transcripts of primary sources (census, probate records, pension records, etc.) together with some biographical sketches.
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