Roughly a year before his public debut, high school senior Elvis Presley appeared in the 1953 Humes High School Annual Minstrel. The program features art that would now be considered offensive; although professional minstrel shows had largely died out in the earlier half of the 1900s, amateur high school and local theater minstrel-themed productions continued until the 1960s. At the time, blackface was still an acceptable element of minstrel shows, but I haven't discovered anything yet one way or another about whether or not the 1953 Humes Annual Minstrel featured blackface performances. Interestingly, Humes did have a Male Beauty Show (shown below from the 1953 yearbook) which featured male students in female attire. According to Peter Guralnick, Elvis wore a red flannel shirt borrowed from classmate Buzzy Forbes. On a Humes Class of 1953 website, graduate Shirley Hubanks-Scott posted: "T he first time I saw Elvis perform was at the Male Beauty Show at Humes. Elvis as...