DR. CHERYL WATKINS
Mar 01, 2022
2 minutes
BY MIKE MILLER
Photography by Kevin A. Roberts
took over as the St. Louis YWCA’s president and CEO last summer, she knew the organization’s storied history. She was versed in its origins as a safe haven for rural women traveling to the region to work at the 1904 World’s Fair. She respected how, in the 1940s, it merged two branches to become racially integrated long before it was common
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