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Transcript of second interview with Senator Joe Neal by Claytee D. White, February 7, 2006
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Second interview in a series of five with Nevada State Senator Joe Neal conducted by Claytee D. White on February 7, 2006. Born in Mounds, Louisiana, in 1935, Neal joined his family in Las Vegas as a young man shortly before serving in the United States Air Force from 1954 to 1958. Following his military service, he earned a bachelor's degree in political science at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Neal continued his education at the Institute of Applied Science in Chicago, Illinois, with postgraduate work in law. From 1973 to 2001, he served in the Nevada Legislature as the Senator from Clark County Senatorial District No. 4. In the second interview, Neal focuses on his work during the 1960s and 1970s.
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Transcript from interview with Jocelyn Oats conducted by John Grygo and Claytee D. White, November 20, 2012
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Transcript from interview with Jocelyn Oats by John Grygo. Oats came to Las Vegas with her family and grew up on the Westside. Her father was a leader in the community and a founder of Victory Baptist Church. Her mother provided child care for people in the community. Oats works with Nevada Partners and the Youth Employment for Summer (YES), and reflects on the community in Las Vegas.
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Transcript of interview with Gwen Walker by Claytee White, July 15, 2014
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Gwendolyn K. Walker arrived in North Las Vegas in 1962 from Houston, Texas, as a five-year-old with her parents, two brothers, and her cousins. The Walker family at first moved to a rented house on D Street, and Gwen attended Kit Carson Elementary School for first grade. Her mother enrolled in nursing school, so she sent Gwen back to Delhi, Louisiana, to be raised by her grandmother. In Delhi Gwen picked cotton with her aunt while she was in the second grade. Gwen returned to North Las Vegas to live with her mother and complete elementary school at Jo Mackey before matriculating to J. D. Smith Elementary School for junior high school and then to Clark High School. Later she attended UNLV. Gwen and her mother joined Saint James Catholic Church at H Street and Washington Avenue, but after she returned from Delhi she joined Second Baptist Church, where she became close with a cohort of friends that remained strong even as she experienced racism and bullying and love for the first time.
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Programs, organizational records, and reports relating to the Governor's Conference on Women.
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Governor's Conference on Women Records
Box/Folder: Box 01
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Press kits, 1991-2006
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: UNLV Libraries Collection of Luxor Hotel and Casino Promotional Materials and Reports
Box/Folder: Box 01
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Press releases, 1992-2006
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: UNLV Libraries Collection of Luxor Hotel and Casino Promotional Materials and Reports
Box/Folder: Box 01
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Promotional materials, 1993-2001
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: UNLV Libraries Collection of Luxor Hotel and Casino Promotional Materials and Reports
Box/Folder: Box 01
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Publicity materials, 1993
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: UNLV Libraries Collection of Luxor Hotel and Casino Promotional Materials and Reports
Box/Folder: Box 01
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Newspaper and magazine clippings, 1991-1997
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: UNLV Libraries Collection of Luxor Hotel and Casino Promotional Materials and Reports
Box/Folder: Box 02
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American Polar Society's The Polar Times journals, grant information, research and field notes, maps, photographic prints and negatives, approximately 1973 to 1983
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Collection Name: John R. Wilbanks Antarctica Research Papers
Box/Folder: Box 01, Box 02
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