Newspaper Article on Georgia's New YMCA_1920

Newspaper article in two columns from an unknown newspaper, dated Sunday, May 16, 1920. Article is on two pages, with the second page including a photograph of the building. The article goes into details about fundraising and different areas of the building, like a mess hall, pool, and lounge. The article begins as follows: "Building for Colored Y.M.C.A to be Formally Opened Today The first of a series of exercises to be held in connection with the opening for use of the new Young Men's Christian Association building for colored men, at 146 Butler street, will be held at 3 o'clock this afternoon in the new gymnasium. Addresses will be made at the formal opening by Dr. R. R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee institute, and by Dr. J. E. Mooreland, senior international secretary of the colored department of the Y. M. C. A. in the United States. Prominent Atlantans, who will take part in the exercises are J. K. Orr, John J. Eagan, W. Woods White and Philip Colbert, general secretary of the central association on Luckie street. Professor John Hope, president of Morehouse college, will preside. An invitation to the formal opening has been extended to the white people of the city, for whom special seats will be reserved." Meta is mentioned on the second page: "On third floor is the Lobby, offices, men's game room and the gymnasium. A feature of the lobby, or loungeroom, is its wide, old fashioned fire place, over which hangs a bronze statue, entitled "Inspiration." It was designed by Mrs. Metta Fuller, of Boston, a pupil of the famous Rodin, of Paris, and represents an angel whispering into the ear of a downcast youth, pointing toward the rising sun, and bidding him rise for the sake of the unborn."

Butler St. YMCA
The Black City Hall of Atlanta
20-24 Butler Street (now Jesse Hill Street)
Sweet Auburn Historic District, Atlanta, Georgia

Eph1.41.158

May 16, 1920

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