Group portrait of a high school YMCA group in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The group of young African-American men are formally posed in three rows in front of a brick building. The three men seated in the middle of the front row hold a triangular sign with a cross in the center and the letters H I Y across the top. The front row includes the following, as identified by Julius Pegues: McKeller, 4th from the left; Jesse Lee Greadington, 5th from the left; John Hope Franklin, 6th from the left; and Smith, last name unknown, 2nd from the left.


Size: 6175px × 4905px
Photo credit: © Heritage Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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