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Transcript from interviews with Katherine M. Joseph by Claytee White, October 25, 2004 and September 5, 2007

Date

2004-10-25
2007-09-05

Description

Two-session interview with Katherine M. Joseph by Claytee White, October 25, 2004, and September 5, 2007. Joseph is a community activist and was a co-worker of Lubertha Johnson, and involved with Operation Independence. In the interview, Johnson discusses her family, her employment, and life on the Westside.

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Transcript from interview with Essie Lee Jones by Claytee White, June 5, 1996

Date

1996-06-05

Description

Essie Lee Jones moved from the Tallulah, Louisiana, area to Las Vegas in 1969. In the interview, Jones discusses her employment in various positions such as maid, waitress, and casino porter at the Stardust, Frontier, and Aladdin Hotel/Casinos.

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Transcript of interview with Hannah Brown by Claytee D. White, September 27, 2012

Date

2012-09-27

Description

Growing up in the Westside community, worked in the Sight N Sound Record Store. Brown spoke of entertainers in the neighborhood and their influence on community children. Second portion of interview filmed at PBS.

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Transcript of interview with Joel Coombs by Claytee D. White, February 22, 2014

Date

2014-02-22

Description

Joel Coombs was raised in an interracial upper middle class family. Born in Newport News, Virginia, his parents relocated and separated when he was young. Joel's white father went on to marry a black woman by the name of Delores. Many of Joel's friends thought that Delores was just hired help, as coming from an interracial home in Las Vegas in the 1970s was considered extremely rare. Joel recalls having to tell his peers on more than one occasion that Delores was his mom and not his maid. His fondest family memories include rock collecting and going to the gun range. Joel became a cheerleader and ran track in high school and college. He recalls attending Valley High School amidst racial tensions, racism, and prejudice. His recollections concerning high school lockdowns and race riots reveal the underlying social issues that once plagued Las Vegas, Nevada. Another major social problem that negatively impacted the lives of Joel's peers was drug abuse, as drugs were easily available at Valley High School and at Bishop Gorman in the 1970s. As an interracial couple Joel's parents were at the forefront of the Civil Rights movement. He recalls participating in the protests as a child and landing on the front page of The Post. In regards to jobs, prior to building and designing roofs and floors at Truss Plant, Joel worked as a jeweler and as a land surveyor. Growing up in an interracial home in Las Vegas helped to shape him into the hardworking, socially aware, and innovative man he is today.

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Transcript of interview with Q.B Bush by Claytee D. White, May 15, 2007

Date

2007-05-15

Archival Collection

Description

Q.B. was one of the first black dealers on the LV Strip. Talks of the Economic Opportunity Board, the LV black experience and shared photo collection.

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Transcript of interview with Eunice Claxton by Claytee White, June 4, 2015

Date

2015-06-04

Description

Lived in LV and Reno, attended Westside School, worked as shield in El Morocco, and memories of Jackson Street life. Donated small collection containing photographs; memorial programs containing some history of COGIC; and two bulletins of regional COGIC convocations, one at Nucleus Plaza; and the Gully Family History.

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Transcript of interview with Trish Geran by Claytee D. White, April 14, 2015

Date

2015-04-14

Description

Trish Geran is too busy to pigeonhole herself into one role. The activist, author, daughter, engineer, filmmaker, public speaker, and student was born and raised in Las Vegas’s Westside community as the fifth and youngest child of Hazel and Johnus Geran. She and her sister attended Catholic elementary school and Bishop Gorman High School, and her brothers went to Madison Elementary School, Roy W. Martin Junior High School, and Las Vegas High School. In this interview Trish discusses the feelings of not belonging that shaped her world view: she was different from her white, wealthy schoolmates, and as a private school student she was different from her neighbors. She found balance through excelling in sports, drill team, and academics. After graduating from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) and cashing in an IRA to work on Barak Obama’s presidential campaign, Trish found out from her mother that the City of Las Vegas was going to close F Street, main link between the Westside

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Transcript of interview with Samuel and Sherrill Coleman by Claytee White, February 12, 2016 and February 22, 2016

Date

2016-02-12
2016-02-22

Description

Sherrill and Samuel Coleman moved to Las Vegas during the 1990s after both enjoying a full life and numerous careers in other parts of the United States. They met each other through church in 1998 and married each other in April 1999. Now retired, both Samuel and Sherrill remain active in their church community. Samuel Coleman was born in Durant, Mississippi in 1928 to a sharecropping family. His father died when he was 13 months old, leaving his mother to raise seven children by herself. Over time, his family slowly migrated to Chicago and he joined them when he was 15. For eight months, Samuel worked a number of different jobs until he began to work for Burlington Railroad as a four cook. The United States Army drafted him in 1951 and sent him overseas to work in a motor pool for a military hospital in Korea, despite his status as a conscientious objector. At war’s end, he returned to work for Burlington. During his last 17 years with the railroad, Samuel successfully petitioned to join the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the union for railroad cooks, porters, and waiters, to improve the working and sleeping conditions at Burlington Railroad. He retired from the railroads in the 1970s and chose to pursue other careers. Until his official retirement in 1993, Samuel worked in real estate, as the owner of a liquor store, a firefighter, a restaurant inspector, and a deacon for his church. His daughter from his first wife moved to Vegas to pursue a career as a teacher and after a number of visits, Samuel decided to follow her in 1999. Sherrill Coleman was born in Newton, Kansas in 1941. Like many other African American women in her community, she worked as a housekeeper for a number of years. She and her first husband moved to Los Angeles County in 1964 where she took a temporary job in the elections department of the local government. In 1967, Sherrill became a file clerk for Los Angeles County’s Department of Public Social Services. By the time she left the department, she was middle management in the auditing department. She moved to Vegas in 1993.

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Transcript of interview with Leandrew Winston by Claytee D. White, August 03, 2016

Date

2016-08-03

Description

Leandrew Winston is best known for his work in public broadcasting. He was born in Grady, Arkansas where he lived on a farm with his family. He migrated first to California and then to Las Vegas. Once in the city, Winston became a well-connected figure in the African American community and often tells stories about his experiences with police brutality. He chose to work in public broadcasting and in 1971 became the first African American to work at PBS at Channel 10. He started hosting Ten on the Black Side, his own television news talk show, in 1975 and later became the Minority Affairs Director at Channel 10. In 1984, Winston created a documentary for PBS called The Road to Las Vegas, a Black Perspective. He returned to school in 1987 and received his MBA from National University. Upon returning to Las Vegas, he helped found KNPR. Winston left Channel 10 and took a job with KCEP in 2001.

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