than four decades. He also continued to immerse
himself in art and music and to produce numer-
ous portraits and paintings. Judge Nathan Young
died at the age of 98 in 1993.
Bibliography
Waide, John. “Two Narratives: Edna Patterson-Petty and
Nathan B. Young, Jr.” St. Louis University Museum
of Art. January 2002. Available online. URL:
http://sluma.slu.edu/past_ex_two_narr.html. Ac-
cessed June 2, 2005.
Young, Benjamin. “The Boll Weevil Starts North: A
Story.” Opportunity(February 1926).
“Young Blood Hungers, The”Marita Bonner
(1922)
Published in the May 1928 issue of THECRISIS,
MARITABONNER’s unconventional philosophical
meditation on the plight of the younger genera-
tions referred only to Young Blood, a figure or
force hungering for guidance and success. The
brief story, classified by scholars as fiction or as an
essay, is informed by religious themes, social reali-
ties, and anxieties about survival. It conveys Bon-
ner’s interests in progress but does not compete
with her more grim and searing narratives based
on the fictional CHICAGOneighborhood of Frye
Street.
Bibliography
Flynn, Joyce, and Joyce Occomy Striklin. Frye Street &
Environs: The Collected Works of Marita Bonner.
Boston: Beacon Press, 1987.
“Young Glory of Him, The”Langston Hughes
(1927)
A moving and tragic short story about unrequited
love by LANGSTONHUGHES. Published in the April
1927 issue of THEMESSENGER,the story focused on
the inevitable corruption of an innocent girl named
Daisy Jones. A sheltered daughter of white New
England missionaries to Africa, she falls in love with
one of the sailors aboard the freight ship carrying
them to their foreign post. The narrator, who is the
cabin boy aboard the ship the West Ilana,has the op-
portunity to read Daisy’s diary and finds out that her
feelings for Eric Gynt, the blond sailor, are quite sin-
cere and passionate. Over the course of the voyage,
however, it is clear that the virtuous affection that
she offers is not what she can expect in return. Fol-
lowing a disastrous trip into Dakar, one evening
when the ship docks there, Daisy Jones becomes
withdrawn and intensely upset. She eventually
jumps overboard and drowns. Her suicide note re-
veals that Gynt had betrayed her affection and did
not love her truly.
Hughes’s portrait of the callous and sincere
nature of attraction is powerful for its evocative
portrait of innocence betrayed. Like “BODIES IN
THE MOONLIGHT” and “THE LITTLE VIRGIN,”
“The Young Glory of Him” was inspired by
Hughes’s own travels aboard the SS Malonein the
years before he achieved literary fame.Bibliography
Berry, Faith, ed. Langston Hughes: Before and Beyond
Harlem.Westport, Conn.: Lawrence Hill & Com-
pany, 1983.
Rampersad, Arnold. The Life of Langston Hughes: I, Too,
Sing America.Vol. 1, 1902–1941.New York: Oxford
University Press, 1986.Young Men’s Christian Association
The first Young Men’s Christian Association
(YMCA) was established in 1844 in London, En-
gland. Founder George Williams, a draper, founded
the group with a number of fellow workers. The
men hoped to use the organization to minister to
the itinerant and migrant workers who were flood-
ing London. In less than 10 years, the more than
two dozen YMCA branches in England had nearly
3,000 members. The YMCA movement spread
rapidly throughout Europe and in 1855 resulted in
a World Conference in Paris that succeeded in es-
tablishing the World Alliance of YMCAs. The first
YMCA in the United States was founded in
Boston in December 1851, just over one month
after the first YMCA in North America was estab-
lished in Montreal, Canada. A formerly enslaved
man named Anthony Bowen established the first
YMCA for African Americans, in WASHINGTON,
D.C, in 1853.
The national YMCA, from its founding until
1946, was an organization that adhered to a strict
policy of racial segregation. African Americans
were prohibited from joining, residing, or partici-
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