African Americans -- Sports
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Harlem YMCA photographs
Collection
Identifier: Y.GNY.4-1
Abstract
Collected photographic images from the Harlem Branch of the YMCA of Greater New York, located on West 135th Street in Manhattan.
Dates:
1940s-1990s.; Majority of material found within ( 1940s-1960s)
Found in:
Kautz Family YMCA Archives
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Harlem YMCA photographs
Reed, Dwight, 1917 - 2000
File — Box 3
Scope and Contents
Dwight Reed was born in St. Paul Minnesota in the late 1910s. He attended the University of Minnesota and was an All-American defensive end for the Golden Gophers football team under Coach Bernie Bierman from 1935-1938. Reed was one of only two African-American players on the team at this time. During World War II Reed was a sergeant in the US Army based at Fort Knox, Kentucky, a racially integrated unit. He served as atheletic director of the Hallie Q Brown settlement house in the Twin...
Dates:
1917 - 2000
