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Newspaper article, Pioneer Las Vegan Sees Town Grow, Las Vegas Sun, February 9, 1965

Date

1965-02-09

Description

Newspaper article featuring Lucretia Stevens. She moved to Las Vegas in 1923 when the town was about six blocks square and about 60 people made up the black community.

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Newspaper article, Night for youths, All-Day workshop head many events, Las Vegas Sun, February 9, 1965

Date

1965-02-09

Description

Newspaper article featuring information about the Negro National History Week events taking place in schools and churches in February 1965.

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Newspaper clipping, Photograph with black community leaders, Homecoming Committee, publication and date unknown

Date

unspecified year in XXXX

Description

Newspaper clipping of photograph with caption: Homecoming Committee -- Left to right - Sarann Knight, Rev. Willie Davis, Lubertha M. Johnson, Rev. Jesse D. Scott, and Judge Addelair D. Guy.

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Newspaper clipping, Photograph with Verlia Davis presenting oral histories, The Advertiser, February 21, 1979

Date

1979-02-21

Description

Newspaper clipping with photograph featuring Verlia Davis, Sarann Knight, Lubertha Johnson and Arlone Scott receiving oral histories taken in the 1970s for "The Black Experience in Southern Nevada."

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Newspaper clipping, NAACP Bachelor of the Year Fund Raising Affair, publication unknown, April 29, 1976

Date

1976-04-19

Description

Newspaper clipping with photograph featuring Toni Miller from Western Airlines buying an advertisement from NAACP representatives Saran Knight, Eleanor Walker and Lubertha Johnson.

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Issues of The Voice newspaper: March 25, 1954; April 15, 1954; May 1, 1954

Date

1954-03-25
1954-04-15
1954-05-01

Archival Collection

Description

First three issues of Las Vegas Voice newspaper from March 25 (Volume 1, Number 1), April 15 (Volume 1, Number 2), and May 1, 1954 (Volume 1, Number 3).

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Missile newspaper, August 2, 1960

Date

1960-08-02

Description

Issue of the Missile newspaper, described as the "Official Organ of Las Vegas Branch NAACP," August 2, 1960.

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Westside Improvement Committee Petitions of 1940

Date

1940

Description

This collection consists of petitions signed by citizens of the Westside of Las Vegas from 1 February 1940 to 4 December 1940 that were filed with the Clerk, City of Las Vegas. These petitions focus on the need for improvements on the Westside and request zoning restrictions for residential and business purposes.

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Letter from Donald Clark, president of the Las Vegas Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to Clarence Horton, Esq., president of the State Bar Association, January 11, 1962

Date

1962-01-11

Archival Collection

Description

In this letter to Clarence Horton, the president of the Nevada Bar Association, Rev. Donald Clark requests information regarding the delayed admission of Charles L. Kellar, an African American lawyer, to the State Bar Association, January 11, 1962.

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Series of six articles for the Las Vegas Review-Journal by Mary Hausch, reporting on integration of Clark County Schools, 1973

Date

1973

Description

This is a series of six articles written by Mary Hausch in 1973 for the Las Vegas Review-Journal on the development and implementation of Sixth Grade Centers in Las Vegas to promote racial integration of schools.

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