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Transcript of Interview with Marion Bennett, July 2, 2009

Date

2009-07-02

Description

Marion Bennett has served twice as local NAACP President. He also talks about the integration of casinos, schools, and housing. Marion has been the pastor for Zion Methodist for over 40 years.

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Transcript of Interview with Lovell Gaines, July 1, 2009

Date

2009-07-01

Description

Lovell Gaines moved to Las Vegas from Reno in 1975, becoming the local NAACP President in early 1980s. Lovell worked at the Nevada Department of Corrections for over 30 years.

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Transcript of Interview with Rev. Jesse Scott, June 29, 2009

Date

2009-06-02

Description

Rev. Jesse Scott served as executive director and four-term president of Las Vegas NAACP branch.

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Transcript of Interview with James Rogers, June 30, 2009

Date

2009-06-30

Description

James Rogers was President of the local NAACP from 1996-2000. He is also the Pastor of Greater New Jerusalem Church.

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Transcript of Interview with Gene Collins, July 16, 2009

Date

2009-07-16

Description

Gene Collins served as President of Las Vegas chapter of NAACP 1998-2001. He aslso worked at the Nevada Test Site as an electrician.

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Transcript of Interview with Dean Ishman, July 2, 2009

Date

2009-07-02

Description

Dean Ishman moved to Las Vegas in 1995, becoming the Las Vegas NAACP branch president in 2003.

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Transcript of Interview with Andrew Brewer, July 1, 2009

Date

2009-07-01

Description

Andrew Brewer became Las Vegas NAACP president in 2008.

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Transcript of Interview with Barbara Kirkland

Date

2004-11-12

Description

On a sunny day in 1946, the train from Shreveport, Louisiana, stopped at The Plaza hotel in downtown Las Vegas like it always did. But on this particular day, Atha Toliver and her only child, twelve-year-old Barbara, stepped off the train and onto the dusty Western street of Fremont. Narrator Barbara Bates Kirkland recalls that event and living in Las Vegas for most of the next seven decades during this 2004 interview. Like many others who migrated from the South, Barbara Kirkland’s mother would find employment as a maid. A friend who already lived in Las Vegas had told her of the good paying jobs as private maid. So Atha who was determined that her daughter would get an education and a finer future saw this as her opportunity to achieve this for her daughter. Later, the entrepreneurial and creative mother opened Eva’s Flower Basket, a floral shop that Barbara operates in her retirement from teaching. Barbara returned to Louisiana for her senior year in high school, attended Southern University in Baton Rouge, and then returned to Las Vegas to teach first grade at Westside School. Barbara was active in the community, was a founding member of Les Femmes Douze, involved with Zion United Methodist Church and was friends with many of the early African American community leaders at the time. She talks about these, describes various neighborhoods where she lived and about raising her own two children in Las Vegas. Barbara was a founding member of Les Femmes Douze. AKA/Akateens.

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Transcript of Interview with Estralita Williams

Date

2013-02-13

Description

Estralita Williams is a native of Las Vegas. Her father was a pastor; she and her sisters sang with choir that backed up celebrity musicians such as Paul Anka. Estralita worked for the EOB.

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Transcript of Interview with Eddie & Johnie Wright

Date

2012-11-16
2012-11-28
2012-10-06 to 2013-10-13

Description

Eddie & Johnie Wright met met, married in 1957, and raised their family in Las Vegas. Johnie arrived in Las Vegas in 1941, teaching first grade at the Westside school, eventually becoming a nurses aide. Eddie came to Las Vegas from Arkansas, and became the first black ticket agent at the local Greyhound station.

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