Kester links the YWCA to the Southern Summer School for Women Workers, where he spoke during some of its programs. On the one hand, Kester identifies the Southern Summer School's work towards teaching working women about class struggle and giving them a voice as its major accomplishments. On the other hand, in terms of race, he suggests that the school's accomplishments were somewhat more limited. Kester believed that the struggles of race and class went hand in hand; however, because of the nature of Jim Crow segregation throughout the South, he indicates it would have been difficult for the Southern Summer School to integrate before it did. His comments here reveal the obstacles that prevented the organization of white and black working class people as a cohesive group with common interests during these years.