Much of what we know of early Rex parades, themes, and float designs we learn from parade bulletins. Early versions of “parade papers” consisted of black and white engravings of float designs ...

Visitors watching their first Rex parade are often puzzled by the figure of a white bull that appears amid the procession of elegant floats. Surrounded by masked men costumed as butchers and ...

Hampton was preparing Fitch and other members of the school's Marching 100 band to make history by integrating the Rex parade, but he knew there could be resistance. "Despite that, our focus would ...