Football Squad Colored YMCA
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Title
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Football Squad Colored YMCA
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Description
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YMCA Football team, champions in 1908. The team was affiliated with the local Black YMCA chapter.
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The team’s formation was part of a broader tradition of African American sports clubs that operated separately from predominantly white institutions due to racial segregation. The photograph was taken in front of the Witherspoon School on the corner of Witherspoon and Maclean Streets (Historical Society of Princeton, n.d.).
Prof. Charles Robert Thompson pictured second from the left on the back row, served as a principal of the Witherspoon School for Colored Children in Princeton, New Jersey, during the early 1900s. The school, established in 1858 (formerly called the Quarry School) provided education to over 200 African-American students from kindergarten through eighth grade, residing in both Princeton Borough and Township (The Waxwood 2017).
Details about the children are scarce. However, a 1910 United States Census record show an Edward Moore - presumed to be the first person on the left, top row - living on Witherspoon Street. Moore was married to Anna, worked as a waiter in a local hotel, and owned his home at 101 Witherspoon Street (1910 United States Federal Census)
Names of players and further description on reverse, see page 2.
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Contributor
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Historical Society of Princeton
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Date Created
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c. 1908
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Creator
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Unknown
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Rights
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This work is believed to be in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States. For more information, see http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/
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Identifier
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I_5_005
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Format
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Image
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Extent
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2, front and back
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Spatial Coverage
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Princeton, NJ
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Subject
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Football players
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Black people
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African Americans
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Young Men's Christian Association of the City of New York. Colored Men's Branch
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Discrimination in sports
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Racism in sports
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Photography
