Grand Opening of Butler-Gast YMCA

Abstract/Description: Indoor assembly at the grand opening ceremony for the Butler-Gast YMCA with one unidentified Caucasian boy holding a long tappered lit candle, one African American girl, one unidentified elderly African American man plus one unidentified Caucasian man both standing to the left of the children and next to a candleabra (approximately 4 feet in height), and Martha Jane Matthews (Caucasian woman on the right) directing the boy as an audience of African American and Caucasian adults observe [ID: MSS0039_6971]
Subject(s): Nebraska
Omaha (Neb.)
Community life
YMCA
Date Created: 1995

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