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I agree.Part of an interview with Ida Bowser by Claytee White on August, 30 2007. Bowser describes how she came to work for the UNLV library.
Ida Bowser oral history interview, 2007 August 30. OH-00159. [Audio recording] Oral History Research Center, Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
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And then, for about a month or so, I didn't do anything. At that time civil rights was starting. Things were starting to really happen with the civil rights. Ruby Duncan and the mothers, you know, they started to march and I mean really get things heated up here in Las Vegas, and along come the federal government with this on-the-job-training program. I heard about this on-the-job-training program, so I called. And at that time you had to call the welfare office. So I called the welfare office and they told me that the program had just ended; that they 7 weren't taking any more applications. But you know what they say. It's the squeaky wheel that gets the attention. I wouldn't take the "no." I just couldn't take that for an answer. So I called them every day. They told me the same thing every day. I guess they got tired of me calling them, so they finally said okay; we're going to send you; we're going to find someplace; we're going to send you, we're going to send you out to the university. And they sent me out to the university. I didn't know until a few years ago when they told me that as far as they know that I am the first African-American to work in a library in the state of Nevada. I didn't know that. I didn't know that. But that's how I ended up at UNLV.