An instructor leads a group of girls in a baton twirling class in a gymnasium at Tuley Park Fieldhouse, Chattham, Illinois, circa 1963. Source: Richard J. Daley Collection, University of Illinois
Mamie Allen | Brighton High School, Jefferson County, Alabama, 1950s. Miss Cole (Possible first name: Jean, Jessie or Dorothy) Brighton Hight School Majorette, Jefferson County, Alabama, 1953-1956.
Veronica “Bonnie Cakes” Sadler (nee Syfax) was born in Mississippi and attended Central High School, Columbs, Ohio, where she was a majorette. Sadler died in 2016. Photo Provided
Dorothy Vinella Humphrey (1928-2002) was a drum major for Booker T. Washington HS, Dallas, and also Prairie View College, now Prairie View A&M University. Prairie View is a public historically black land-grant university located northwest of Houston. It was founded in 1876, and is one of...
February is Black History Month! Follow along as we share a whole new collection of historic images of Black twirlers and majorettes. Here are some pictures we’ve discovered of Langston University majorettes and twirlers. Langston is Oklahoma’s only historically black college and the...
Martin Luther King, Jr. birthday commemoration MarchPhotographer: Lewis, Boyd, 1944-2023 DescriptionView of unidentified majorettes participating in the Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade marking the slain civil rights leader’s 45th birthday, on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia. SOURCE:...
The following images of Clark Atlanta University Majorettes are shared by permission from Clark College / Clark Atlanta University, Robert W. Woodruff Libraries. They were taken in 1950, 1957 and 1960, at football games. Clark is an Historic Black University. Today, their marching band features...
In celebration of the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, we will share vintage pictures of twirlers and majorettes marching and performing in past Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parades. The following post was published by the Freeport Memorial Library, Freeport, New York. Many thanks to their...
Photo Restored with AI Software Elaine Jones is a longtime leader and living legend in the sport of baton twirling. A coach for nearly 50 years, she has taught more than 1,000 students, many of whom went on to twirl and dance in high school and college. Hailing from the great state of Illinois,...
A young Black girl sporting a blue western-style pantsuit twirls a store-bought baton in her kitchen. We know it’s the kitchen because you can see Maxwell House coffee in the lower lefthand corner. 😉 All in all, a very cute vintage Polaroid. Those store-bought batons were not balanced and...
Photos by Jim Peppler for the Souther Courier; Source: Alabama Departnebt of Archives and History. The pictures were taken during a Homecoming parade in 1966. The students were from Booker T. Washington High School, Montgomery, Alabama. All three photos were edited with artificial intelligence...
Check out this lovely rare 1940s portrait of Black majorette Mae Alice Hinkle. It was taken in 1943. Ms. Hinkle grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri where she attended Douglass High School. Formal portraits of baton twirlers and majorettes from the early 1940s are somewhat rare. The further along...
