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Full title:Ken Shimizu, extreme left, meets other delegates of various racial backgrounds during the City-Wide Unity Conference held in New York City on March 17, 1945, at the Society for Ethical Culture under the auspices of the Interracial Youth Committee. Representing the young people of famous Riverside Church, Ken was one of several hundred boys and girls from sixty schools, church groups, and settlement houses throughout the city who participated in the conferences. Others shown with Ken are, left to right: Theodora Jaffe, of Jewish descent, a student of the Fieldston School of Ethical Culture; JoAnn McKee, born in Germany, who came to the United States just before the outbreak of the European War, representing Christ Church-Methodist; and Charles Speed, a Negro student at the Frederick Douglas Junior High School, representing the Abyssinian Baptist Church. Photographer: Fujihira, Toge New York, New York.
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