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How The YMCA Helped Shape America

Baseball legends Jackie Robinson (kneeling) and Roy Campanella of the Brooklyn Dodgers teach basketball to a group of young boys at the YMCA in Harlem in 1948. (Bettmann/Corbis)
Baseball legends Jackie Robinson (kneeling) and Roy Campanella of the Brooklyn Dodgers teach basketball to a group of young boys at the YMCA in Harlem in 1948. (Bettmann/Corbis)

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