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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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Tecopa Railroad #1 2-6-2T at BLW at Tecopa, California (interchange with Tonopah & Tidewater): photographic print, approximately 1900 to 1935
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Mallory H. Ferrell Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 01
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Leslie H. Smith and Smith family personal papers
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Leslie H. Smith Papers
Box/Folder: N/A
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Las Vegas High School reunions
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Leslie H. Smith Papers
Box/Folder: N/A
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Las Vegas Grammar School
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Leslie H. Smith Papers
Box/Folder: N/A
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Boulder Echo (Las Vegas High School yearbooks), 1942 to 1945
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Leslie H. Smith Papers
Box/Folder: Box 01
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Artemisia (University of Nevada yearbook), 1947
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Leslie H. Smith Papers
Box/Folder: Box 01
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"Gobs of Rhythm" show programs and photographic prints featuring Leslie H. Smith, approximately 1942 to 1945
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Leslie H. Smith Papers
Box/Folder: Box 03
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Leslie H. Smith's expired passport, birth certificate, photographic prints, 1927 to 1945
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Leslie H. Smith Papers
Box/Folder: Box 03
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The Las Vegas High School Wildcats script by Jerry A. Stanford, 2004
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Leslie H. Smith Papers
Box/Folder: Box 03
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