Unrecorded African-American Flyer from Texas

[African Americana]: [Texas]:

Third Call to Prairie View Leadership Training Institute [caption title].

[Prairie View or Dallas: 1953]. Mimeographed broadside, 8.5 x 11 inches. Old folds, minor wear and toning. Very good. Item #5510

An attractive flyer announcing the call for attendees for the Prairie View Leadership Training Institute, held over three days in December 1953 at Prairie View A&M College in Prairie View, Texas. The flyer invites Hi-Y, Tri-Hi-Y officers and members, club advisers, school officials, and YMCA Secretaries to attend the training program "for increased opportunities and leadership in community participation" and to improve Hi-Y and Tri-Hi-Y practices. The event was sponsored by the Southwest Area Council YMCAs based in Dallas; as such, the flyer could have been printed in Dallas. The flyer also discusses the theme of the institute ("Peace ina. Troubled World"), the available leadership, expenses for the event, "What to Bring," and also lists the keynote speaker, Dr. Frank Theodore Wilson, Dean of the School of Religion at Howard University. The bottom three lines constitute a form to return for registration to the institute. No other copies for any year of this likely unique surviving example from an obscure African-American YMCA leadership training institute in Jim Crow Texas.

Price: $850