Max Yergan, a pioneering missionary and YMCA secretary, received the Spingarn Medal for his outstanding work in South Africa. His efforts in education, cultural exchange, and interracial cooperation were celebrated as a symbol of what African Americans could offer to the African continent. The NAACP lauded Yergan’s achievements as “representing the gift of cooperation…American Negroes may send back to their Motherland.”
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