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Williams' idea grew out of meetings he held for prayer and Bible-reading among his fellow workers in a business in the city of London, [5] and on 6 June 1844, he held the first meeting that led to the founding of YMCA with the purpose of "the improving of the spiritual condition of young men engaged in the drapery, embroidery, and other trades."
The first book edition of the Master and Marguerita, YMCA-Press 1967. The YMCA Press now operated with a "different financial basis and with a more openly religious orientation." [ 1 ] In the 60s, YMCA-Press published the authors banned or persecuted in the Soviet Union: Anna Akhmatova , Varlam Chalamov , Marina Tsetaeva , Osip Mandelstam ...
Macleod, David I. Building character in the American boy: The Boy Scouts, YMCA, and their forerunners, 1870-1920 (Univ of Wisconsin Press, 2004), a standard scholarly history. Putney, Clifford W. "Going Upscale: The YMCA and Postwar America, 1950-1990." Journal of Sport History 20#2 1993, pp. 151–166. online
YMCA Association Men Cover June 1919.. The Kautz Family YMCA Archives, located at the University of Minnesota Libraries in Minneapolis, United States, archives the historical records of the U.S. YMCA national association, YMCA of the USA, the records of the Minneapolis and Greater New York YMCAs, and those of the Y's Men International, a service club in partnership with the YMCA.
The YMCA first started as a group in Shreveport in the 1860s but did not formally incorporate until 1922. The next year, the group raised $545,000 to build this building which opened in 1925. [ 4 ] Monroe E. Dodd , the First Baptist Church pastor and Edward Jacobs, the National Bank of Shreveport founder, both strongly advocated for the project.
A full account of the historical influence of Brown's organizing efforts in Asia is the article "Muscular Christianity and the “Western Civilizing Mission”: Elwood S. Brown, the YMCA, and the Idea of the Far Eastern Championship Games" by Stefan Hübner in Diplomatic History, 39.3, December 9, 2013, pp 532