W. Dean Ishman was born in Bronx, New York and moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1995. In 2003, he became the President of the Las Vegas chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. As president he reorganized the NAACP and put effort into recruiting more Hispanic people to the organization.

Georgie Clark was born in Chicago, Illinois on November 13, 1910. She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1969. She was a real estate agent, river runner, and a ferry command civil servant in World War II.

John Brooks was born November 12, 1937 in Las Vegas, Nevada. As a child Brooks sold Review-Journal newspapers. He graduated from Las Vegas High School. Brooks began working in the gaming industry in Las Vegas in 1958.

David Broxterman had a long career with the Air Force and was a member of an Air Force association that helped push for an engineering school at the UNiversity of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). As of 2007, he is the administrative manager for the Clark County School District and works on green building certification for the district.

Byron Underhill was born February 02, 1919 and moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1927. Underhill and his father owned and operated the first Coca Cola Bottling Company in Clark County, Nevada. Underhill had three children, born between 1948 and 1955.

Tony Scodwell was born on December 01, 1942 in Beloit, Wisconsin to Joyce Marie Conery and Anton John Scodwell. He first arrived to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1964. He went to Berklee School of Music and was a Jazz Musician.

Hanford Searl was born March 02, 1947 in Buffalo, New York. He attended New Mexico Highlands University at Las Vegas, New Mexico and Brigham Young University in Utah. Searl worked as a writer at the Las Vegas Review-Journal and Billboard Magazine.