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Oral history interview with Limmie Monroe, LuChana Turner, Francesca Monroe-Dixon, and Patricia Turner conducted by Claytee D. White on August 5, 2025 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. In this interview, three generations of the Monroe family discuss living and growing up in the Westside of Las Vegas, Nevada. They take turns describing the businesses on Jackson Street, federal housing developments in the 1950s, later moving to Casper Park II where the matriarch, Limmie Monroe, still lives as of 2025. Limmie's daughters, Francesca Monroe-Dixon and Patricia Monroe Turner, adulthood in the 1970s and remembers some of the businesses on Jackson Avenue in the 1960s and 1970s. The granddaughter, LuChana Turner, talks about working in Starlight Record and Tape store. Together they remember some of the people who served as community leaders on the Westside.
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Oral history interview with Limmie Monroe, LuChana Turner, Francesca Monroe-Dixon, and Patricia Turner conducted by Claytee D. White on August 5, 2025 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. In this interview, three generations of the Monroe family discuss living and growing up in the Westside of Las Vegas, Nevada. They take turns describing the businesses on Jackson Street, federal housing developments in the 1950s, later moving to Casper Park II where the matriarch, Limmie Monroe, still lives as of 2025. Limmie's daughters, Francesca Monroe-Dixon and Patricia Monroe Turner, adulthood in the 1970s and remembers some of the businesses on Jackson Avenue in the 1960s and 1970s. The granddaughter, LuChana Turner, talks about working in Starlight Record and Tape store. Together they remember some of the people who served as community leaders on the Westside. Digital audio available; no transcript available.
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Limmie Monroe, LuChana Turner, Francesca Monroe-Dixon, and Patricia Turner oral history interview, 2025 August 05. OH-03955. [Cite format consulted: Audio recording or Transcript.] Oral History Research Center, Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
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This interview was conducted and transcribed by the Oral History Research Center (OHRC) which is part of the UNLV University Libraries Special Collections and Archives Division.
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Interview materials were processed by UNLV Libraries Special Collections and Archives in 2025. Sarah Jones wrote the collection description. Access copies were created for born-digital audio files.