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1944 Dixie College News clipping discussing the freshman class's minstrel show.

1934 Washington County News section for Dixie College noting “Mr. McAllister’s department is preparing a minstrel show, “The Land O’Cotton.”

News paper review of The Dixie Normal College Minstrel troupe's recent show. The article notes distinct minstrel stock characters .

Yearbook page with a photograph showing a Dixie Jr. College homecoming parade float with a man and woman in black face in what appears to be a cotton field with a white man behind them with either reigns to the plow or a whip. The year is likely 1963…

Yearbook page summarizing student activities for the year including a slave auction

Yearbook page with a inset photograph of two students in blackface

Headline in Dixie Journalists' Chatter April 27, 1951 announcing the result of what appears to be a recent student body election. One of the student government parties is called the Ku Klux Klan

Announcement in the December 10, 1931 edition of the Washington County News of a " A 'negroe' minstrel show for the boy's day program is being planned at the Dixie College..."

Letter to the editor in the February 13, 1959 edition of The Dixie Sun. The letter asks why shouldn't Dixie adopt more Southern imagery and songs and states "The South was the most colorful and fun-loving section of the United States before the…

Yearbook page with two photographs. The top photograph show a group of fifty students onstage in some type of performance. Of the fifty students shown, at least twenty-four can be seen wearing blackface makeup and many are also waving miniature…