Program Debutante Cotillion May 2, 1952 Grand Ballroom Public Auditorium Presented by Girl Friends, Inc. Cleveland, Ohio Chapter
[Cleveland: 1952] quarto, 24 pp., illustrated, original stiff green patterned, printed wrappers, some minor wear, else very good.
Black
debutante “cotillion” balls were well-established by the 1950s as symbols of a
growing African-American social elite, daughters of doctors, lawyers, and other
professionals. This Cleveland event celebrated the “coming-out” (as white high
society called it) of 41 young women, complete with make-up artists,
photographers, choreographers and apparel consultants, and, of course, handsome
male escorts.