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Photographs of Frontier Strike: Jesse Jackson, Culinary Union, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1992 April 21 (folder 9 of 13)

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Date

1992-04-21

Description

Secretary-treasurer of the Culinary Workers Union, Jim Arnold, and American civil rights activist, Jesse Jackson, give a public speech on a stage outside of the Frontier Hotel and Casino on April 21, 1992. Images also show Culinary Union workers marching with protest posters, banners, and the American flag. Following the protesting crowd are camera operators and police officers on bicycles and motorcycles. Banners and posters read: "Labor & Rainbow in solidarity, The National Rainbow Coalition, Inc." "Service Employees International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC," and "Service Employees Union. Frontier Hotel on strike, Culinary Workers Union, Bartenders Union, Teamsters Union, Operating Engineers Union, Carpenters Union, sanctioned by Southern Nevada Central Labor Council AFL-CIO." Arrangement note: Series I. Demonstrations, Subseries I.A. Frontier Strike. Site name: Frontier Hotel and Casino.

Digital ID

cwu0054
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    Citation

    cwu0054. Culinary Workers Union Local 226 Las Vegas, Nevada Photographs, approximately 1950-2006. PH-00382. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1qj7883w

    Rights

    The Culinary Workers Union Local 226 retains copyrights to materials in this collection. Materials may be used for nonprofit purposes, including educational, teaching, scholarship, research, or other academic use. All for-profit use of copyrighted materials must receive permission in advance from the Culinary Workers Union Local 226. For more information, please see the UNLV Special Collections policies on reproduction and use (https://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/research_and_services/reproductions) or contact us at special.collections@unlv.edu.

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    Digital Provenance

    Digitized materials: physical originals can be viewed in Special Collections and Archives reading room

    Date Digitized

    2016-06-29

    Language

    English

    Publisher

    University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries

    Format

    image/tiff