[See also "Related materials" notes within each Record Group]
The Sophia Smith Collection holds the personal papers of a number of YWCA staff members. See the Papers of:
See also:
Southern Women, the Student YWCA, and Race (1920-1944) Collection
Today: Magazine of the YWCA of India for 1963-79 is housed in the Periodicals Collection of the Sophia Smith Collection.
Records of the YWCA's USO work are in the Social Welfare History Archives at the University of Minnesota
Records of various YWCA International Institutes are in the Social Welfare History Archives, and the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota.
A number of women with YWCA connections, including several national staff members, were interviewed as part of the Schlesinger Library's
Black Women Oral History Project (1987). The Sophia Smith Collection holds copies of the transcripts. See:
- Frankie V. Adams
- Melnea Agnes (Jones) Cass
- Dorothy (Boulding) Ferebee
- Virginia (Clark) Gayton
- Anna Arnold Hedgeman
- Dorothy Irene Height
- Susie Pearl (Williams) Jones
- Lucy (Miller) Mitchell
- Julia (Hamilton) Smith
- Olive Pearl Stokes
- Mary (Crutchfield) Wright Thompson
- Sue (Bailey) Thurman
- Frances Harriet Williams
See also the online exhibit of five YWCA overseas secretaties (Bessie Boies Cotton, Virginia Heim George, Ruth Lois Hill, Elmina R. Lucke, and Ruth Frances Woodsmall)
"An Ever-Widening Circle of Friendship": YWCA Overseas Secretaries from China to Liberia.
