Colorado History NOW, June 2002
Modupe Labode, Chief Historian, Colorado Historical Society

The papers of the YWCA of Metropolitan Denver are held in the Colorado Historical Society’s Stephen H. Hart Library (MSS #1254).

Aron, Cindy S. Working at Play: A History of Vacations in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Hansen, Moya. "Entitled to Full and Equal Enjoyment: Leisure and Entertainment in the Denver Black Community, 1900-1930." Historical Studies Journal of the University of Colorado at Denver, Vol. 10, No. 1, (Spring 1993): 47-75.

Goldstein, Marcia Tremmel. "Breaking Down Barriers: Black and White Women’s Visions of Integration – The Young Women’s Christian Association in Denver and the Phyllis Wheatley Branch, 1915-1964." M.A. Thesis, University of Colorado at Denver, 1995.

Sprat, Margaret and Nina Mjagkij, editors. Men and Women Adrift: The YMCA and the YWCA in the City. New York: New York University Press, 1997.

Weisenfeld, Judith. African American Women and Christian Activism: New York’s Black YWCA, 1905-1945. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.