African American Women's Choir around piano, YWCA building, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Black-and-white photograph of the African American Girl's choir standing around a piano at the YWCA building at 201 South Rose Street in Kalamazoo, Michigan. View shows five women, standing, in choral robes standing behind a grand piano, one women seated in front of the piano. On both sides of the women are four men in robes, three on the left and one one right. The event was reported in the Kalamazoo Gazette on November 8, 1943, page 8: Talitha Gerlach, staff member of the foreign division of the national board of the YWCA addressed 200 local women in Kalamazoo, Michigan, for the annual World Fellowship observance, a program that featured the international aspects of the YWCA. Special music for the program was provided by the Greek Girl's choir and the African American Girls' Chorus. The photograph was taken for Ann Smith and the YWCA.