1920s African American Family and Education Small Archive from Dallas, Texas

Archive of an African American family in Dallas in the 1920s, small archive of 5 items with four photos and a 1925 graduation program for Booker T. Washington high school, which was for many years the first and only high school for Black students in Dallas. Four black and white sepia toned photographs, two with handwritten captions, measuring between 2.5" x 3" and 3" x 4.5". These photos have been removed from album pages. Depicted are a couple, a young man (captioned "my sweetheart"), a girl sitting outside a house, and a group of friends perched atop a stone wall (captioned "a happy moment of my life"). These photos are undated, but are connected to (truncated) the 1925 graduation program and depict several high school aged kids, so they were like
ly taken around the same time. Alongside the commencement program, there is a separate booklet with a class roll for Washington High School's 1925 class, which, despite being the only high school for Black kids in Dallas, has a rather small graduating class of 39, of which only 13 were boys. The class motto for the school was "Solidarity" and its class flowers were a white carnation and a fern. The commencement speech was given by J.F. Williams, president of Paul Quinn College of Waco, Texas, a historically black Methodist college. This archive is an interesting piece of regional history. Photos were removed from album pages, with glue on versos, overall In good condition overall. (Inventory #: 19421)