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I. Myrtle Carden: First Executive Director of the Hallie Q. Brown Community Center

I. Myrtle Carden was a social worker who served as the first executive director of the Hallie Q. Brown Community Center in 1929. The community center, which grew out of the St. Paul Urban League, started at the site of a former YWCA. Carden led the Hallie Q. Brown Community Center from the time it […]

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