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Gertrude and Roosevelt Toston Photograph Collection
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The Gertrude and Roosevelt Toston Photograph Collection is comprised of digital surrogates of photographic prints, slides, and ephemera documenting Gertrude and Roosevelt Toston's lives in Las Vegas, Nevada from 1958 to 2002. The collection mainly documents Roosevelt Toston's career as a newscaster for KLAS-TV and Gertrude Toston's involvement with the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. Other images in this collection include photographs of Roosevelt Toston's childhood home in Epps, Louisiana and photographs of Gertrude Toston with her stepfather, Reverend Leo A. Johnson.
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Roosevelt Toston oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Roosevelt Toston conducted by Chanelle Pickens on October 19, 2013 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. Toston discusses his career in broadcast journalism in the Las Vegas, Nevada market and then at the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.
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Roosevelt Toston oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Roosevelt Toston conducted by Claytee D. White on July 11, 2006 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. Toston discusses moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in the 1950s and his various careers at the Test Site, Bell Telephone of Nevada, as a television anchorman and cameraman, and the Convention and Visitors Authority to bring conventions to Las Vegas. He also talks about ways African American entrepreneurs might get involved in the convention business.
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Gertrude Toston oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Gertrude Toston conducted by Claytee D. White on July 21, 2006 for the UNLV @ 50 Oral History Project. Toston discusses attending the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) in the 1960s. She also discusses working as a customer service representative for Western Airlines for 27 years before going back to UNLV to work on her master's degree in special education. She then talks about working as a graduate teaching assistant and student teacher advisor at UNLV and as a teacher at Brinley Junior High.
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Photograph of Roosevelt Toston, 1959
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Photograph of young Roosevelt Toston when he first came to Las Vegas in 1959.
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Photograph of Roosevelt Toston, 2001
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Color portrait photograph of Roosevelt Toston from his 40th High School Reunion.
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Audio recording clip of an interview with Gertrude Toston
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Part of an interview with Gertrude Toston by Claytee White on July 21, 2006. Toston discusses going to work for Western Airlines, at first as a customer service agent in 1967, and then as a flight attendant, while going to school.
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Photograph of Roosevelt Toston, signed, 1974
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Autographed portrait of Roosevelt Toston in his signature bowtie.
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Transcript of interview with Roosevelt Toston by Chanelle Pickens, October 19, 2013
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Interview transcript with Roosevelt Toston by Chanelle Pickens, October 19, 2013. This interview focuses primarily on Roosevelt's career in broadcast journalism in the Las Vegas market and then at the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.
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Photograph of the home of Roosevelt Toston's grandmother in Epps, Louisiana, 1987
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Color photograph of the home of Roosevelt Toston's grandmother in Epps, Louisiana. Toston's aunt Annie Lou Thomson stands in the doorway.
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