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Identifier
20040938
Description
Students in Fort Worth, Texas public schools are no longer dragging their feet when it comes to dancing in physical education classes. Riverside High School are practicing an old-fashioned square dance. The members of the square dance club are, clockwise, Annabelle Jeffersen, back to camera; Briton Schubert Wanelle Messer, Ervin Archie, Melvena Dixon, Dan Godwin, Glennelle Brittian, and Kenneth Hightower. They are in old-fashioned western outfit, formed in a circle holding hands raised shoulder-height in the air. Published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram morning edition, February 4, 1940.
Archival Date
1940-01
Collection Name
Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection
Collection Number
AR406-6-1101
Original Format
Negatives, Black & White
File Format
JPG
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Subjects
Dancing; Physical education; Folk dancing; Square dance; Public schools
Names
Amon Carter Riverside High School (Fort Worth, Tex.); Jefferson, Annabelle; Schubert, Briton; Messer, Wanelle; Archie, Ervin; Dixon, Melvena; Godwin, Dan; Brittian, Glennelle; Hightower, Kenneth
Subjects
Dancing; Physical education; Folk dancing; Square dance; Public schools