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Black High School Football Exhibit on Display at Prairie View Cultural Center
An exhibit focusing on football programs at Texas’ black high schools before integration has opened at the Prairie View A&M Cultural Center Gallery and will be available for viewing through Nov. 9.
The exhibit features memorabilia courtesy of the Prairie View Interscholastic League Coaches Association (pvilca.org), which is working to preserve and commemorate the history of the Prairie View Interscholastic League which governed athletic, academic, and music competitions for the state’s black high schools during segregation. The PVIL was organized in 1920 by Prairie View officials and existed until 1970 when its merger with the University Interscholastic League was completed.
“We’re proud to display this wonderful history which has, in many ways, been largely overlooked,” said Michael Hurd, director for Prairie View’s Texas Institute for the Preservation of History and Culture (pvamu.edu/tiphc) and a PVIL alumnus himself, from Houston’s Evan E. Worthing High School. “The PVIL schools, which peaked at about 500 statewide, produced some incredible students, many of who were also extraordinary athletes such as the players and coaches presented in this exhibit.”
The exhibit, “Remembering the Past With Pride,” includes vintage images, trophies, news clips, uniforms and equipment. Despite being woefully underfunded and lacking other basic resources, PVIL schools featured passionate rivalries, legendary coaches, and dozens of college All-Americans – most through historically black colleges such as Prairie View and Texas Southern University.
The UIL opened in 1910 at the University of Texas to govern competitions for “any white public school” in the state. It would be another 10 years before African American students in Texas would have the same guidance afforded them by the Texas Interscholastic League of Colored Schools, which would mirror the UIL’s operations and produce some of the finest football talent in the nation.
http://www.pvamu.edu/news/2015/10/1...t-on-display-at-prairie-view-cultural-center/
An exhibit focusing on football programs at Texas’ black high schools before integration has opened at the Prairie View A&M Cultural Center Gallery and will be available for viewing through Nov. 9.
The exhibit features memorabilia courtesy of the Prairie View Interscholastic League Coaches Association (pvilca.org), which is working to preserve and commemorate the history of the Prairie View Interscholastic League which governed athletic, academic, and music competitions for the state’s black high schools during segregation. The PVIL was organized in 1920 by Prairie View officials and existed until 1970 when its merger with the University Interscholastic League was completed.
“We’re proud to display this wonderful history which has, in many ways, been largely overlooked,” said Michael Hurd, director for Prairie View’s Texas Institute for the Preservation of History and Culture (pvamu.edu/tiphc) and a PVIL alumnus himself, from Houston’s Evan E. Worthing High School. “The PVIL schools, which peaked at about 500 statewide, produced some incredible students, many of who were also extraordinary athletes such as the players and coaches presented in this exhibit.”
The exhibit, “Remembering the Past With Pride,” includes vintage images, trophies, news clips, uniforms and equipment. Despite being woefully underfunded and lacking other basic resources, PVIL schools featured passionate rivalries, legendary coaches, and dozens of college All-Americans – most through historically black colleges such as Prairie View and Texas Southern University.
The UIL opened in 1910 at the University of Texas to govern competitions for “any white public school” in the state. It would be another 10 years before African American students in Texas would have the same guidance afforded them by the Texas Interscholastic League of Colored Schools, which would mirror the UIL’s operations and produce some of the finest football talent in the nation.
http://www.pvamu.edu/news/2015/10/1...t-on-display-at-prairie-view-cultural-center/