Program for a college football game between Wilberforce and Tuskegee, 1944: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

1944 college football program for the all-Black teams from Wilberforce and Tuskegee at the University of Detroit Stadium. The program is red and green with a graphic of a football player mid-run with a football in his left hand plowing his way through an oversized football with a stadium full of spectators in the background. There is a two inch tear through the "I" of Wilberforce at the top right side of the program.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: October 20, 1944
• Created by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Tuskegee Institute, American, founded 1881
• Subject of: Wilberforce University, American, founded 1856
• Subject of: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, founded 1908
• Type: souvenir programs
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 11 x 8 1/2 in. (27.9 x 21.6 cm)
• Place used: Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Athletes
• Topic: Education
• Topic: Football
• Topic: HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
• Topic: Sports
• Object number: 2012.31.5
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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