- On View
- Sports Gallery
- Museum Maps
- Objects in this Location
- Exhibition
- Sports: Leveling the Playing Field
- Created by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- Tuskegee Institute, American, founded 1881
- Wilberforce University, American, founded 1856
- Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, founded 1908
- Date
- October 20, 1944
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 11 x 8 1/2 in. (27.9 x 21.6 cm)
- Description
- 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.
- Transcription Center Status
- Transcription Available
- Place used
- Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Memorabilia and Ephemera - Other
- Type
- souvenir programs
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2012.31.5
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public Domain
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




