Eva del Vakia Bowles

Biography

Eva del Vakia Bowles (January 24, 1875 – June 14, 1943) was an American teacher and a Young Women's Christian Association organizer in New York City. When she began working at the New York City segregated YWCA in Harlem, she became the first black woman to be a general secretary of the organization. For eighteen years she organized black branches of the YWCA and expanded their services to community members.

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