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YMCA presence in Asia in the early 1900s

While working on the blog post series on the Louisiana Trio, I found myself getting constantly sidetracked by the YMCA history, which was very intriguing. So I thought I should introduce some of my discoveries in this short separate post. In 1888, YMCA of Canada and the United States began...

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William Cheeks’ Lost Passport

On August 5, 1920, William Henry Cheeks applied for an emergency passport in Seoul, Chosen.

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Charles Payne and the Black Troubadours

Charles Payne was a member of the globe-trotting Fisk Jubilee Singers – who were doing numerous tours all over Europe, from the UK, Germany to Russia.

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First Concert by African-American Singers Held in Korea

It took an entire evening of detective work to figure out why a concert held in 1920 in Seoul, the first ever concert that featured African-American artists, came up in my search for “cats”.

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