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Staff in charge of all recruting and placing colored secretaries in the camps at home and overseas, World War I. Back row left to right: George L. Johnson, Max Yergan, J. Francis Gregory; Front row left to right: William J. Faulkner, Jesse Moorland, R...

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Group portrait of six African American YMCA staff workers charged with recruiting African American secretaries to serve African American soldiers fighting in World War I at camps in the U.S. and abroad
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  1. African Americans
  2. Employees
  3. Staff Board
  4. War Work
  5. World War, 1914 1918
  6. Young Men's Christian Associations

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